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lowercase

lo·wer·case

UK/ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/ US/ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/ uncommon

adjective

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”
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Origin

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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