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camelcase

camelcase is the alternative spelling of camel case.

Meaning of camel case

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

Noun (1) capitalized: CamelCase

CamelCase (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of camel case.
    • Write element and attribute names in a style called "CamelCase." Elements reflecting an entity should be written in UpperCamelCase; elements and attributes reflecting a property should be written in lowerCamelCase.2003, Berthold Daum, Udo Merten, “Groundwork”, in System Architecture with XML, San Francisco, Calif.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, →ISBN, page 81

Noun (2) capitalized: camelCase

camelCase (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of camel case.
    • It's common practice to name private members in camelCase, that is with an initial lower case letter and a capital for the start of each word.2003, Rob Birdwell [et al.], “Introduction to Objects”, in Beginning ASP.NET 1.0 with C#, Wrox Programmer to Programmer, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 298
    • CamelCase is a common way of writing variable names in programming. It allows the programmer or someone reading their code to easily parse long variable names. […] The key feature of camelCase is that it allows multiple words to be combined into one with a medial capital letter at the beginning of...2023, Jenny Gibson Bond, “Variables and Components”, in Mark Taub, editor, Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, part II...

Words formed from camelcase

Questions about camelcase

What is camelcase the alternative spelling of?
Camelcase is the alternative spelling of camel case.
What part of speech is camelcase?
Camelcase is a noun.

Words near camelcase in the dictionary

  1. camel-jockey
  2. camel-jockeys
  3. camelback
  4. camelbacked
  5. camelbacks
  6. camelcase
  7. CamelCased
  8. cameleer
  9. cameleers
  10. cameleon
  11. cameleons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camelcase (page history and authors); CamelCase (page history and authors); camelCase (page history and authors); camel case (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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