case sensitive

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case sensitive (comparative more case sensitive, superlative most case sensitive)

  1. (computer science) Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.

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distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters

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