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Definition of Lower-case letter

1. Noun. The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lower-case Letter

Literary usage of Lower-case letter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"The upper case S also stands at the foot of its class, but the relative inferiority is here much less than in the lower case letter. ..."

2. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"The lower-case letter should be used in all notes and statements on drawings for the two reasons given above, (1) it is read much more easily than all caps ..."

3. Irvine's Dictionary of Titles by Leigh Hadley Irvine (1912)
"There seems to 'be no logical reason for using a lower-case letter in McKinley. ... Whether the apostrophe or the lower-case letter be used is no vital ..."

4. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"The lower-case letter should be used in all notes and statements on drawings for the two reasons given above, (1) it is read much more easily than all caps ..."

5. Art of Engraving: A Practical Treatise on the Engraver's Art, with Special (1903)
"... over to effect the proper width shade until the graver point is nearly two-thirds of the way down from the top of the lower-case letter to the bottom. ..."

6. "The Words Came Down!": English Language Learners Read, Write, and Talk ...by Emelie Lowrey Parker, Tess Haysham Pardini by Emelie Lowrey Parker, Tess Haysham Pardini (2006)
"Going from left to right, each page shows only the upper-case letter, the lower-case letter, and a picture (but no label) of an object that the child knows ..."

7. Language Fundamentals by Jo Ellen Moore, Rick Law, Joy Evans (1995)
"Begin each with a lower case letter. Have children come up and erase the first lower case letter in their own name and write in the capital. ..."

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