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intercapped

intercapped adjective: having an intermediate capital letter within a solid spelling, as in PowerPoint for example.

Adjective

intercapped (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having an intermediate capital letter within a solid spelling, as in PowerPoint for example.
    • Every page features careful placement of type, but the type is artistically messed up: sometimes all caps, sometimes lowercase, sometimes intercapped […]1999, Jeff Carlson, Toby Malina, Glenn Fleishman, Typography: the best work from the web
    • The first letter of any concatenated words are given an upper-case letter. For example, the following are all examples of intercapped variable names […]2002, Jo Wood, Java programming for spatial sciences

Examples of intercapped in a sentence

  • Regardless, you will know the public's opinion, most likely expressed in jauntily intercapped slang.2003, Austin Grossman, Postmortems from Game Developer:
  • Too bad the intercapped name is way too 90s and sticks out like a sore thumb.2004, T Mike Childs, Rocklopedia fakebandica:
  • Button labels in graphical application windows are shown in regular text, and are often intercapped.2005, Laura Wingerd, Practical Perforce:
  • […] coders discovered they could better recognize the words they used for variables and commands when the words were intercapped.2006, Tay Vaughan, Multimedia: making it work:

Origin of intercapped

From inter- + cap + -ed (where cap is short for capital, as in caps).

Questions about intercapped

What does intercapped mean?
Intercapped means having an intermediate capital letter within a solid spelling, as in PowerPoint for example.
How do you use intercapped in a sentence?
Regardless, you will know the public's opinion, most likely expressed in jauntily intercapped slang.
What part of speech is intercapped?
Intercapped is an adjective.

Words near intercapped in the dictionary

  1. intercanopy
  2. intercanthal
  3. intercanyon
  4. intercanyons
  5. intercapillary
  6. intercapped
  7. intercapping
  8. intercaps
  9. intercapsomere
  10. intercapsomeric
  11. intercapsular

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