uppercase letter
collocation in Englishmeaningsofupper caseandletter
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upper-case
adjective
uk/ˌʌp.əˈkeɪs/us/ˌʌp.ɚˈkeɪs/
written as ...
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letter
noun[C]
uk/ˈlet.ər/us/ˈlet̬.ɚ/
a written message from one person to another, usually put in an envelope and sent ...
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(Definition ofupper-caseandletterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofuppercase letter
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Most type constructors are written as an identifier beginning with anuppercaseletter.
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For the design with five treatments, eachuppercaseletterrepresents four biologically independent samples.
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None of the words in any of the studies contained anuppercaseletterin its conventional spelling.
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The children were shown eachuppercaseletterof the alphabet and were asked to say its name.
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A class identifier begins with anuppercaseletter.
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For these purposes, a character is anyuppercaseletter, or a space.
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Anyuppercaselettermay appear in a character constant.
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The encoding is fixed and 3 digits make anuppercaseletteror symbol, possibly randomly allocated (not table, frequency or keyboard order).
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In roman and oblique fonts, the lowercase letter has the same shape as theuppercaseletter.
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As we have seen, even inexperienced spellers use uppercase letters more often in the initial positions of their spellings than in the later positions.
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The effect of position was not statistically significant for second graders, who produced few uppercase letters.
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We therefore calculated the proportion of uppercase letters in the initial, medial, and final positions of all spellings that contained at least three letters.
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Generally, children did better when queried about uppercase letters than lowercase letters.
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Variables are denoted by strings starting with uppercase letters, while those starting with lower case letters denote constants.
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Stressed syllables are identified by uppercase letters and the extra-prominent final stressed syllable in a tone unit is also underlined.
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For this sample, uppercase letters were reliably more frequent in the final position than the medial position.
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Words were about 3% more likely than nonwords to be printed in all uppercase letters.
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The notation uses lowercase letters for household choice variables and uppercase letters for the corresponding economywide per-household totals, which are averages of individual household choices.
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Words appeared singly in white uppercase letters centred on a (black) computer screen.
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These effects were not significant with uppercase letters, however, raising questions about the role of shape for this set.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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