Meaning Of Case-sensitive In English - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of case-sensitive in English case-sensitiveadjective uk /ˌkeɪsˈsen.sɪ.tɪv/ us /ˌkeɪsˈsen.sə.t̬ɪv/ Add to word list Add to word list If a computer program is case-sensitive, it can recognize if a letter is a capital or a small letter. Computer programming & software

• abandonware
• acyclic
• ad blocker
• ad blocking
• adware
• CD-RW
• compile
• debug
• escape character
• escape sequence
• F2P
• face recognition
• FaceTime
• MS-DOS
• SDK
• search algorithm
• sentiment analysis
• serial interface
• service bus
• shareware

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Examples of case-sensitive

case-sensitive File names were case-sensitive and could contain up to 31 characters including a two-character extension. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The domain part is not case-sensitive, but local-parts may be. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most modern languages are case-sensitive; some older languages are not. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Logo is not case-sensitive but retains the case used for formatting. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Unlike function and class names, variable names are case-sensitive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Variable names are case-sensitive alphabetical string without spaces. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In contrast, variable names and labels are case-sensitive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many programming languages are case-sensitive, making a consistent choice of labels important. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A text search operation could be case-sensitive or case-insensitive, depending on the system, application, or context. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Since they are case-insensitive, when requesting a file by name any capitalization can be used, in contrast to case-sensitive systems where only a single capitalization would work. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Commands and arguments are case-sensitive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of case-sensitive?

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in Chinese (Traditional) （電腦程式）區分字母大小寫的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （计算机程序）对字母大小写敏感的，区分字母大小写的… See more in Spanish sensible a las mayúsculas y minúsculas… See more in Portuguese sensível a maiúsculas e minúsculas… See more Need a translator?

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