Definition of case-sensitive in US English:
case-sensitive
adjectiveˌkeɪsˈsɛnsədɪvˌkāsˈsensədiv
1(of a program or function) differentiating between capital and lowercase letters.
you can restrict the extent of the search by making it case-sensitive
Example sentencesExamples
- Today's search engines are not case-sensitive; therefore I generally use initial caps in this tag because it looks the cleanest.
- We must be on the only server that has case-sensitive URLs.
- If it were me, knowing that most stuff in UNIX is case-sensitive, and knowing that host names are case-insensitive, I'd probably think you meant " lclint ’, in which case I would be pretty frustrated if I tried to access that web site.
- It has a built-in advanced password generator, which randomly chooses a case-sensitive combination of characters.
- For example, the search commands are normally case-sensitive; to change this use the: set ignorecase or: set ic option.
- 1.1 (of input) treated differently depending on whether it is in capitals or lowercase text.
function names are now case-sensitive
Example sentencesExamples
- XML is a case-sensitive language so ‘findwithinradius ‘is NOT the same as ‘findWithinRadius‘.
- Passwords are typically case-sensitive, so a strong password contains letters in both uppercase and lowercase.