Adjective
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
case-sensitive
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