lower-case letters

Cultural  

1. “Small letters”; letters of the alphabet that are not capital letters or upper-case letters.

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Example Sentences

Upper-case letters indicate novel exon 5′ and lower-case letters indicate intron 5.

From Nature

Even typing those lower-case letters fills me with low-level rage and when I happened upon one of his poems recently – the one about the little lame balloon man who goes far and wee – rather than being charmed, I thought: oh for goodness sake.

From The Guardian

The Virgin Media Super Hub 2 used passwords that were just eight characters long, and used only lower-case letters.

From BBC

Some use a long password with mixture of upper and lower-case letters, numbers and sometimes symbols.

From BBC

Paul McNeil, a typographic designer at MuirMcNeil and a senior lecturer in typography at the London College of Communication, thinks it has an “unexpected affability and liveliness … due partly to its bulbous serifs, its large, lower-case letters and its tiny, gleaming white counter forms.”

From The Guardian