camel case

== English == === Alternative forms === camelcase, camelCase, CamelCase === Etymology === From camel +‎ case (“nature of a piece of alphabetic type”), probably modelled after lowercase and uppercase, from a fancied resemblance of the capital letters to the humps of a two-humped camel. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæml̩ keɪs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæm(ə)l ˌkeɪs/ Hyphenation: ca‧mel case === Noun === camel case (uncountable) (typography, often programming) Especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are concatenated together without any spaces between them, with the first letter of each word (sometimes excluding the first word) capitalized. [from 1990s] Synonyms: camelback, HumpyCase (obsolete) Hyponyms: upper camel case, UpperCamelCase, Pascal case, studly caps; bicapitalization, BiCapitalization; lower camel case, lowerCamelCase Coordinate terms: all caps, alternating caps, downstyle, initial caps, headline style, sentence case, title case, lowercase, upstyle Near-synonyms: intercapping, intercaps ==== Usage notes ==== Camel case is often used as one of multiple conventions for the names of variables in programming languages: compare MyVariableName (Pascal case or upper camel case), myVariableName (lower camel case) myvariablename (lower case), my_variable_name (snake case), and my-variable-name (kebab case or dash case). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === References === === Further reading === camel case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia