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alternating case en · NOUN

Etymology

From alternating + letter case.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of alternating caps.
    • The prose passage was on the left page of a booklet, in upper case, lower case, or alternating case. 1974, Max Coltheart, Roger Freeman, Case alternation impairs word identification:
    • College students read a passage presented in AlTeRnAtInG cAsE on a CRT while their eye movements were monitored. 1979, George W. McConkie, David Zola, Is visual information integrated across successive fixations in reading? (PDF):