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LOWER-CASE LETTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lower-case letter mean?
• LOWER-CASE LETTER (noun)
The noun LOWER-CASE LETTER has 1 sense:
1. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
Familiarity information: LOWER-CASE LETTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
lower-case letter; lowercase; minuscule; small letter
Hypernyms ("lower-case letter" is a kind of...):
character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)
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