Also known as medial capitals, camel caps, camelCase, camelcase
term for the notation where uppercase letters are used within words for specific purposes, such as making word boundaries visible after concatenating multiple words into a single string, with the first word's initial letter in lowercase
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Camel case is named after the hump of its protruding capital letter, similar to the hump of common camels.Camel case (sometimes stylized autologically as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is a writing format practice of writing phrases with capitalized words and yet without spaces or punctuation. The practice has various names and conventions. The earliest known occurrence of a term for this style, InterCaps, was on Usenet in April 1990.
The use of medial capitals as a convention in the regular spelling of everyday texts is rare, but is used in some languages as a solution to particular problems which arise when two words or segments are combined. In the scholarly transliteration of languages written in other scripts, medial capitals are used in similar situations. Medial capitals are sometimes traditionally used in abbreviations to reflect the capitalization that the words would have when written out in full, and they have come into use in unpunctuated abbreviations of academic titles, such as PhD and BSc, which now often replace Ph.D. and B.Sc.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).