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lower case

 noun
     
Related topics: Letters and punctuation, Newspapers, Publishing
lower case [uncountable]
SLATCN letters in their small forms, such as a, b, c etc [≠ upper case; ↪ capital]
—lower case adjective:
lower case letters
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