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Definitions for lower case
ˈloʊ ərlow·er case

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Wiktionary

  1. lower casenoun

    The minuscule or small letters (a, b, c, as opposed to the uppercase or capital letters, A, B, C).

Wikipedia

  1. lower case

    Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters, with each letter in one set usually having an equivalent in the other set. The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and are treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order. Letter case is generally applied in a mixed-case fashion, with both upper and lowercase letters appearing in a given piece of text for legibility. The choice of case is often prescribed by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular discipline. In orthography, the uppercase is primarily reserved for special purposes, such as the first letter of a sentence or of a proper noun (called capitalisation, or capitalised words), which makes the lowercase the more common variant in regular text. In some contexts (e.g. academical), it is conventional to use one case only. For example, engineering design drawings are typically labelled entirely in uppercase letters, which are easier to distinguish individually than the lowercase when space restrictions require that the lettering be very small. In mathematics, on the other hand, letter case may indicate the relationship between mathematical objects, with uppercase letters, often representing “superior” objects (e.g., X could be a mathematical set containing the generic member x).

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lower case in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lower case in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lower case in a Sentence

  1. Steve Schult:

    Without a password manager, it’s almost impossible to keep secure passwords and unique passwords for every single site that you visit, it’s impossible to remember 20, 30, 40-character passwords that are all unique and have uppercase letters, lower case, numbers, special characters, etc.

  2. Francisco Ferreira:

    The risk of the highest case of economic impact of Ebola has been reduced because of the success of containment in some countries. It has not gone to zero because a great level of preparedness and focus is still needed, I would say the outlook has moved closer to the lower case of $3-$4 billion, than the upper case.

  3. Frederic Goudy:

    Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep

  4. Ashish Jha:

    I expect this surge to peak in the next couple of weeks. It'll peak in different places of America at different times, but once we get into February, I really do expect much, much lower case numbers.

  5. Rachel Herlihy.Also:

    The lower-case rates are associated with districts that are requiring masks in schools, again showing that masks are having and decreasing transmission in our school settings.

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