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camel case

Syllables: ca·mel caseUK/ˈkæml̩ keɪs/US/ˈkæm(ə)l ˌkeɪs/

camel case noun: especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are concatenated together without any spaces between them, with the first letter of each word (sometimes excluding the first word) capitalized.

Noun

camel case (uncountable)

  1. (often) Especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are concatenated together without any spaces between them, with the first letter of each word (sometimes excluding the first word) capitalized.
    • Near-synonyms: intercapping, intercaps
    • In the SMIL 1.0 specification, test criteria were hyphenated (e.g., system-bitrate and system-screen-size). This was deprecated by the SMIL 2.0 specification in favor of camel case attributes to be consistent with other developing standards.2001 September, Jennifer Niederst, “Introduction to SMIL”, in Lorrie LeJeune, Richard Korman, editors, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly...

camel case meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Sinhala and Arabic

camel case in Tamil

style of typography
கமெல்கேசு kamelkēcu

camel case in Marathi

style of typography
कॅमलकेस kĕmalkes

camel case in Sinhala

style of typography
කැමල් කේස් kæmal kēs

camel case in Arabic

style of typography
نسق الجمل
More languagesFewer languages
camel case in Persian
نگارش شتری negâreš-e šotori

Synonyms of camel case

Forms of camel case

alternative formcamelcase
alternative formcamelCase
alternative formCamelCase

Origin of camel case

From camel + case (“nature of a piece of alphabetic type”), probably modelled after lowercase and uppercase, from a fancied resemblance of the capital letters to the humps of a two-humped camel.

Words formed from camel case

Questions about camel case

What does camel case mean?
Camel case means especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are concatenated together without any spaces between them, with the first letter of each word (sometimes excluding the first word) capitalized.
What is camel case in Tamil?
Camel case in Tamil is கமெல்கேசு (kamelkēcu). See Camel case meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is camel case?
Camel case is a noun.
How do you pronounce camel case?
Camel case is pronounced /ˈkæml̩ keɪs/ (UK).

Words near camel case in the dictionary

  1. camedst
  2. camei
  3. Camejo
  4. Camejos
  5. camel
  6. camel case
  7. Camel City
  8. camel clutch
  9. camel clutches
  10. camel driver
  11. camel drivers

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