This msdn article explains it very well with examples, “A tuple is a data structure that has a specific number and sequence of elements“.
Tuples are commonly used in four ways:
To represent a single set of data. For example, a tuple can
represent a database record, and its components can represent
individual fields of the record.To provide easy access to, and manipulation of, a data set.
To return multiple values from a method without using out parameters
(in C#) orByRef
parameters (in Visual Basic).To pass multiple values to a method through a single parameter. For
example, theThread.Start(Object)
method has a single parameter that
lets you supply one value to the method that the thread executes at
startup time. If you supply aTuple<T1, T2, T3>
object as the method
argument, you can supply the thread’s startup routine with three
items of data.