lowercase

Pronunciation: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/

The English word “lowercase” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

In lower case.

verb

To convert (text) to lower case.

Etymology

From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.

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