uppercase
adjective
1. relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
- uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc
noun
1. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters
Similar word(s): capital, majuscule
Definition categories: communication, character, graph, grapheme
verb
1. (transitive) To convert (text) to upper case.