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n. - One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis adj. - Relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case.

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  • uppercase letters
  • I guess it's normally written in uppercase, but at least we've got something to call me, and some sort of affiliation.
  • Possibly because it is written entirely in uppercase, which surely means something regarding relative rank and importance.
  • All our drawings require all text to be in uppercase.
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