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uppercase vs small capital

small capital vs uppercase

uppercase and small capital both are nouns.

uppercase is an adjective but small capital is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
uppercase Yes Yes No No
small capital Yes No No No
As nouns, small capital is a hyponym of uppercase; that is, small capital is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than uppercase:
  • uppercase: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
  • small capital: a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
Other hyponyms of uppercase include small cap.
uppercase (noun) small capital (noun)
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
uppercase (adjective) small capital (adjective)
relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
Difference between uppercase and small capital

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