About The Word Lower-case
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Lower-case
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What's The Definition Of Lower-case?
[n] the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lower-case: lower-case letter | small letter Related Terms | Find terms related to Lower-case: abecedarian | allographic | alphabetic | ascender | back | bastard type | beard | belly | bevel | black letter | blackface | body | boldface | bold-faced | cap | capital | case | chromotypic | chromotypographic | counter | descender | em | en | face | fat-faced type | feet | font | full-faced | graphemic | groove | ideographic | italic | letter | lettered | lexigraphic | ligature | lightface | literal | logogrammatic | logographic | logotype | majuscule | minuscular | minuscule | nick | phototypic | pi | pica | pictographic | point | print | roman | sans serif | script | shank | shoulder | small cap | small capital | stamp | stem | stereotypic | transliterated | type | type body | type class | type lice | typecase | typeface | typefounders | typefoundry | typographic | uncial | upper case | upper-case See Also | character | grapheme | graphic symbol Lower-case In Webster's Dictionary \Low"er-case`\, a. (Print.)
Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote
the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small
capitals. See the Note under 1st {Case}, n., 3.
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