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What (who) is upper case - definition

DISTINCTIVE PROPERTY OF A LETTER IN A BICAMERAL ALPHABET (MOST NOTABLY THE LATIN, GREEK, OR CYRILLIC ONES); PIECE OF INFORMATION WHETHER A LETTER GRAPHEME IS TALLER "UPPER CASE" OR LOWER "LOWER CASE"
Lower case; Case (orthography); Capital letter; Lowercase; Uppercase; Majuscule letter; Upper case; Minuscule letter; Miniscule; Sentence case; Uppercase letter; Lowercase letter; Lower-case; Upper CASE; Upper-case; Capital lettres; Capital lettre; Lowercase letters; Capital and lowercase; Use of small letters; Majiscule; Minuscules; Majuscules; Block caps; Majuscule; Lower CASE; Case folding; UPPERCASE; Case (typography); Capital letters; Lowercased; Small letter; Minuscule text; Bicameral script; Manuscript capital; Choice of case in text; Title capitalization; Minuscule type; Proper case; Shoutcase; Lower-case letter; Upper-case letter; Start case; Start Case; Miniscules; Casefold; Casefolding; Case fold; Case style; Kebab case; Kabob case; Kebabcase; Upcase; Up-case; Locase; Lo-case; Lowcase; Low-case; Spine case; Downcase; Capital Letters; Majuscule and minuscule; Maiuscule; Big letter; Big letters; Small letters; Large letters; Kebab-case; Sentence-case; Quadrilinear; Minuscule; All lowercase; Uppercase letters; Upper and lower case; Mid-sentence case; Casing pair; Upcased
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upper case         
¦ noun capital letters.
Origin
from the use of two type cases positioned on an angled stand, the case containing the capital letters being higher.
upper case         
Upper case letters are capital letters.
Most schools teach children lower case letters first, and upper case letters later.
? lower case
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Upper case is also a noun.
I'm wondering if 'per capita' ought to have upper case, or should it be lower case?
? lower case
N-UNCOUNT
minuscule         
['m?n?skju:l]
¦ adjective
1. extremely tiny.
2. of or in lower-case letters, as distinct from capitals or uncials.
of or in a small cursive script of the Roman alphabet, with ascenders and descenders, developed in the 7th century AD.
¦ noun minuscule script.
?a small or lower-case letter.
Derivatives
minuscular m?'n?skj?l? adjective
Origin
C18: from Fr., from L. minuscula (littera) 'somewhat smaller (letter)'.
Usage
The correct spelling is minuscule rather than miniscule. The latter is a common error, which has arisen by analogy with other words beginning with mini-, where the meaning is also 'very small'.

Wikipedia

Letter case

Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters, with each letter in one set usually having an equivalent in the other set. The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and are treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order.

Letter case is generally applied in a mixed-case fashion, with both upper and lowercase letters appearing in a given piece of text for legibility. The choice of case is often prescribed by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular discipline. In orthography, the uppercase is primarily reserved for special purposes, such as the first letter of a sentence or of a proper noun (called capitalisation, or capitalised words), which makes the lowercase the more common variant in regular text.

In some contexts, e.g., academic, it is conventional to use one case only. For example, engineering design drawings are typically labelled entirely in uppercase letters, which are easier to distinguish individually than the lowercase when space restrictions require that the lettering be very small. In mathematics, on the other hand, uppercase and lower case letters denote generally different mathematical objects, which may be related when the two cases of the same letter are used; for example, x may denote an element of a set X.

Examples of use of upper case
1. The first ten letters spell ‘smithy code‘. The J after that is the only letter in upper case.