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camelize

camelize verb: to change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.

Verb

camelize (third-person singular simple present camelizes, present participle camelizing, simple past and past participle camelized)

  1. To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.
    • We may use a camelized form to improve readability. You can use also underscore in between words if you want the identifier separated.2014, Jeremias Esperanza, My First In Java
  2. To make or become a camel or camel-like.
    • Slowly the horses grow more horse-like, the shadowy camel begins to camelize himself, the buffaloes acquire the rudiments of horns, the deer branch out by tentative steps into still more complicated and more complicated antlers.1888, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 33, page 686
    • A camel has been facetiously described as a horse designed by a committee. Do not "camelize" your proposal.1980, Howard Hillman, The art of winning corporate grants, page 87

Forms of camelize

third-person singular presentcamelizes
present participlecamelizing
past participlecamelized
pastcamelized

Origin of camelize

From camel + -ize.

Questions about camelize

What does camelize mean?
Camelize means to change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.
What part of speech is camelize?
Camelize is a verb.
What is the past tense of camelize?
The past tense of camelize is camelized.

Words near camelize in the dictionary

  1. camelina oils
  2. cameline
  3. camelines
  4. camelion
  5. camelish
  6. camelize
  7. camelized
  8. camelizes
  9. camelizing
  10. camellate
  11. camellated

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