From en.wiktionary.org:
[camelcase]
** English
[2025]
*** Etymology
From [en], probably modelled after [en] and [en], from a fancied resemblance
of the capital letters to the humps of a two-humped camel.[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[-] {{examples|
- thisIsAnExample ( [en] )
- ThisIsAnExample ( [en] )
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1. [en] Especially in computer programming , and in the names of brands and organization s: a style of typography in which several words are concatenated together without any spaces between them, with the first letter of each word (sometimes excluding the first word) capitalize d. [from 1990s]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
**** Usage notes
- Camel case is often used as one of multiple convention s for the names of variables in programming language s: compare [MyVariableName] ( [en] or [en] ), [myVariableName] ( [en] ) [myvariablename] ( [en] ), [my_variable_name] ( [en] ), and [my-variable-name] ( [en] or [en] ).
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[style of typography]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Persian: [fa]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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**** See also
- [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. [entry=CamelCase] ; [pos=n]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
[en]