English Explanatory Dictionary

camel case

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are concatenated together without any spaces between them, with the first letter of each word (sometimes excluding the first word) capitalized.

Pronunciation

/ˈkæml̩ keɪs/ /ˈkæm(ə)l ˌkeɪs/

Word forms

camel case camelcase

Etymology

From camel + case (“nature of a piece of alphabetic type”), probably modelled after lowercase and uppercase, from a fancied resemblance of the capital letters to the humps of a two-humped camel.

Synonyms

camelback HumpyCase intercapping intercaps

Related words

dash case kebab case snake case medial capital

Derived words

camel-cased camelize lower camel case upper camel case
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