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upcasing

upcasing noun: the act of converting all letters to be uppercase.

Noun

upcasing (uncountable)

  1. The act of converting all letters to be uppercase.
    • "The upcasing of the string 'foo' to be all upper case letters resulted in 'FOO'."

Origin of upcasing

From up + casing.

Questions about upcasing

What does upcasing mean?
Upcasing means the act of converting all letters to be uppercase.
What part of speech is upcasing?
Upcasing is a noun.

Words near upcasing in the dictionary

  1. upcame
  2. upcanyon
  3. upcard
  4. upcards
  5. upcarried
  6. upcasing
  7. upcast
  8. upcasted
  9. upcasting
  10. upcasts
  11. upcaught

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