uppercase

up·per·case  (pr-ks)

adj. Abbr. uc or UC

Of, printed, or formatted in capital letters: an uppercase A; uppercase titles.

tr.v. up·per·cased, up·per·cas·ing, up·per·cas·es

1. To put (type or text) in uppercase letters.

2. To begin (a word) with an uppercase letter.

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upper·case n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	uppercase - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, capital grapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" small capital, small cap - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
Adj.	1.	uppercase - relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc" majuscule - of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries lowercase - relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc"