SMALL LETTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does small letter mean? 

• SMALL LETTER (noun)
  The noun SMALL LETTER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SMALL LETTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL LETTER (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 ("small letter" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

A small letter after the number indicates that the protein is a smaller protein resulting from the cleavage of a larger precursor by a protease.

(Classical Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)