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uppercase

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

(of an alphabetic character) capital:
Uppercase letters such as Q and U can be harder to read than lowercase letters q and u.
Printing. pertaining to or belonging in the upper case, such as A, N, or W. Compare case ²( def 8 ).

, up·per·cased, up·per·cas·ing.

First recorded in 1730–40; upper ¹ + case ² (in the sense “a tray divided into compartments for holding types for a compositor to use”)

Thus the lowercase f and y and the uppercase Q are shorn of their due proportions.

He used combinations of uppercase and lowercase letters in two sizes in the inscriptions on the clock dial and in his writings.

The uppercase letters found within words are copied off in the order in which they appear in the inscription or phrase.

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