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tu·ple

(to͞o′pəl, tŭp′əl)

A generalization of ordered pairs, such as (-3, 4), and ordered triples, such as (0, -3, 5), in any dimension. An n-tuple is an ordered list of n numbers and can represent a point in n-dimensional space.

[From -tuple, as in quintuple or sextuple.]

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tuple

(ˈtjʊpəl; ˈtʌpəl)

(Computer Science) computing a row of values in a relational database

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Tupel

кортеж

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This minimal distance is initially the sum over all distances in DistTable (an upper limit), and the corresponding route is an empty tuple. Then, the master deposits the initial routes into tuple space WORK, and spawns NumWorker worker processes in active tuples to compute the search tree in parallel.

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These programs have zero arity output relations that either contain the empty tuple (true) or no tuples (false).