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for lowercase
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
lowercase \low"er*case`\, Lower-case \Low"er-case`\, a. (Print.)
Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote
the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small
capitals; as, lowercase letters a and b and c etc..
Contrasted with uppercase. See the Note under 1st Case,
n., 3.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
lowercase
adj 1: relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were
kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case;
"lowercase letters; a and b and c etc" [ant: uppercase]
n 1: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a
compositor's type case [syn: small letter, lowercase,
lower-case letter, minuscule] [ant: capital, capital
letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase]
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