CamelCase

See also: camelcase, camel case, and camelCase

English

Alternative forms

• camelCase, camelcase, camel case

Etymology

camel + case from the appearance of the humps of a camel.

Noun

Examples
thisIsAnExample (lowerCamelCase) ThisIsAnExample (UpperCamelCase)

CamelCase (uncountable)

1. (typography, often used in programming) The style of writing by concatenating multiple component words (i.e. writing without any space between them), while capitalizing the first letter of each word, starting with the first or the second word.

Usage notes

CamelCase is often used as one of multiple conventions for names of variables in programming languages: compare "MyVariableName" (Pascal case, UpperCamelCase), "myvariablename" (lower case), "my_variable_name" (snake case), and "my-variable-name" (kebab case or dash case).

Hyponyms

• UpperCamelCase
• lowerCamelCase

Coordinate terms

• ALL CAPS
• AlTeRnaTinG cApS
• Initial Caps
• lowercase
• Sentence case
• Title Case

Derived terms

• CamelCased
• to camelize

Related terms

• dash case
• kebab case
• snake case
• Pascal case

Translations

camel case

• Esperanto: miksuskla
• Estonian: läbiv suurtäht
• German: Binnenmajuskel (de) f, Binnenversal m, Binnenversalie f
• Lithuanian: kupranugario Didžioji
• Marathi: कॅमलकेस (kĕmalkes)
• Persian: نگارش شتری (negâreš-e šotori)

See also

• medial capital

Further reading

• CamelCase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia