Definitions

1. noun

A small, usually rounded bundle of things, such as the bundle of a crayon, the bundle of a wire, or the bundle of a stem.

“She unwrapped the small bundle of sticks that the artist had given her.”

2. noun

A group of three or more items that belong together or are related in some way, often used in mathematics and computer science to represent a sequence of values.

“The database stored each customer’s order as a tuple of date, quantity, and price.”

3. verb

To gather or tie into a bundle.

“She had to tuple the cords to make them easier to store.”

4. verb

To insert a tuple into a database, especially in SQL.

“The programmer had to tuple the new customer’s information into the database.”