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intercapped en · ADJ

Etymology

From inter- + cap + -ed (where cap is short for capital, as in caps).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a word, rare) Having an intermediate capital letter within a solid spelling, as in PowerPoint for example.
    • Every page features careful placement of type, but the type is artistically messed up: sometimes all caps, sometimes lowercase, sometimes intercapped […] 1999, Jeff Carlson, Toby Malina, Glenn Fleishman, Typography: the best work from the web:
    • The first letter of any concatenated words are given an upper-case letter. For example, the following are all examples of intercapped variable names […] 2002, Jo Wood, Java programming for spatial sciences:
    • Button labels in graphical application windows are shown in regular text, and are often intercapped. 2005, Laura Wingerd, Practical Perforce:
    • […] coders discovered they could better recognize the words they used for variables and commands when the words were intercapped. 2006, Tay Vaughan, Multimedia: making it work:
    • Too bad the intercapped name is way too 90s and sticks out like a sore thumb. 2004, T Mike Childs, Rocklopedia fakebandica:
    • Regardless, you will know the public's opinion, most likely expressed in jauntily intercapped slang. 2003, Austin Grossman, Postmortems from Game Developer:

Coordinates

lowercased · all-caps · capitalized · capped · lowercase

Hypernyms

CamelCased · camel-cased

Relateds

intercapping · bicapitalization