alternating case

English

Etymology

alternating +‎ letter case

Noun

alternating case (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of alternating caps
    • 1974, Max Coltheart, Roger Freeman, Case alternation impairs word identification:
      The prose passage was on the left page of a booklet, in upper case, lower case, or alternating case.
    • 1979, George W. McConkie, David Zola, [https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03202990.pdf (PDF Is visual information integrated across successive fixations in reading?]):
      College students read a passage presented in AlTeRnAtInG cAsE on a CRT while their eye movements were monitored.
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