case sensitive

Adjective

Meaning

case sensitive (comparative more case sensitive, superlative most case sensitive)

(computer science) Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.

case-sensitive (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of case sensitive

Alternative names

case-sensitive

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Antonyms

Examples

A case-insensitive search could be more convenient, not requiring the user to provide the precise casing, and returning more results, while a case-sensitive search enables the user to focus more precisely on a narrower result set. Source: Internet

All whitespace is considered equivalent, and the keywords, table names, and column names are not case-sensitive. Source: Internet

In Unix filesystems, filenames are usually case-sensitive. Source: Internet

List types are case-sensitive for pattern strings. Source: Internet

Local variable names are not case-sensitive. Source: Internet

The cursor keys and page up/down keys will work as expected, and the slash key ("/") will do a case-sensitive search; the n key repeats the last search. Source: Internet

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