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Meaning of monocase | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Of a script or typeface: having only one case, making no distinction between upper and lower case.
    not-comparable
  2. Supporting or consisting of only one case of letters; either all uppercase or all lowercase; (also), case insensitive, treating upper and lower case as being the same.
    not-comparable

Examples

“American and European programmers are often surprised to discover that not all locales use a two-case alphabet. Eastern languages (e.g., Japanese and Chinese) based on ideograms are monocase; while Middle Eastern languages can have four or more cases.”
“Dine 1 is a ‘monocase’ font that consists of a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. It was designed that way to provide each letter character with a distinct shape without compromising any meaning associated with that shape.”
“The program prompts for the old password (if any) and then for the new one (twice). The caller must supply these. New passwords should be at least four characters long if they use a sufficiently rich alphabet and at least six characters long if monocase. Only the first eight characters of the password are significant.”
“The Standard chose to stay with the old restrictions on these external names: they are not guaranteed to be different unless they differ from each other in the first six characters. Worse than that, upper and lower case letters may be treated the same! […] There is nothing to prevent any specific implementation from giving better limits than these, but for maximum portability the six monocase characters must be all that you expect.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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