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case sensitive

case sensitive adjective: distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.

Adjective

case sensitive (not comparable)

  1. Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.
    Synonyms:
    case dependent

case sensitive meaning in Tamil

case sensitive in Tamil

எழுத்துயர்நிலை உணர்வுடைய, எழுத்தளவு உணர்நிலை
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ބޮޑުއަކުރާއި ކުޑައަކުރު ތަފާތުކުރާ boḍuakurāi kuḍaakuru tafātukurā

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alternative formcase-sensitive

Questions about case sensitive

What does case sensitive mean?
Case sensitive means distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.
What is case sensitive in Tamil?
Case sensitive in Tamil is எழுத்துயர்நிலை உணர்வுடைய, எழுத்தளவு உணர்நிலை. See Case sensitive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is case sensitive?
Case sensitive is an adjective.

Words near case sensitive in the dictionary

  1. case quarters
  2. case report
  3. case reporter
  4. case reporters
  5. case reports
  6. case sensitive
  7. case sensitivities
  8. case sensitivity
  9. case shot
  10. case shots
  11. case stacking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: case sensitive (page history and authors); case sensitive (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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