LOWERCASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lowercase mean? 

• LOWERCASE (noun)
  The noun LOWERCASE has 1 sense:

1. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

  Familiarity information: LOWERCASE used as a noun is very rare.

• LOWERCASE (adjective)
  The adjective LOWERCASE has 1 sense:

1. relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case

  Familiarity information: LOWERCASE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOWERCASE (noun)

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 ("lowercase" is a kind of...):

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

Antonym:

uppercase (one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis)

• LOWERCASE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case

Context example:

lowercase letters; a and b and c etc

Similar:

little; minuscule; small (lowercase)

Also:

minuscular; minuscule (of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries)

Antonym:

uppercase (relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case)

 Context examples 

The worldwide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the uppercase and lowercase Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, and other symbols.

(ASCII, NCI Thesaurus)

The EBCDIC code for capital "A" is 193 and for lowercase "a" is 129.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In X-SAMPA, capital "A" denotes the open back unrounded vowel and lowercase "a" denotes the open front unrounded vowel.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)