"n-tuple" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Rohwer, R.J., Fourth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Two Bayesian treatments of the n-tuple recognition method, Aston Univ., Birmingham http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=497811",
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