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English
Etymology
From camel + case, from the appearance of the humps of a camel.
Noun
camel case (uncountable)
- (typography, often used in programming) The style of writing by concatenating multiple component words (i.e. writing without any space between them), while capitalizing the first letter of each word, starting with the first or the second word.
- Hyponyms: UpperCamelCase, lowerCamelCase
- Coordinate terms: ALL CAPS, AlTeRnaTinG cApS, Initial Caps, Upstyle, Headline Style, Title Case, Sentence case, downstyle, lowercase
Usage notes
CamelCase is often used as one of multiple conventions for names of variables in programming languages: compare MyVariableName
(Pascal case or upper camel case), myVariableName
(lower camel case) myvariablename
(lower case), my_variable_name
(snake case), and my-variable-name
(kebab case or dash case).
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