SMALL CAPITAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does small capital mean? 

• SMALL CAPITAL (noun)
  The noun SMALL CAPITAL has 1 sense:

1. a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters

  Familiarity information: SMALL CAPITAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL CAPITAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

small cap; small capital

Hypernyms ("small capital" is a kind of...):

capital; capital letter; majuscule; upper-case letter; uppercase (one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis)

 Context examples 

Now, it was not really difficult, by an inspection of the groove between your left forefinger and thumb, to feel sure that you did not propose to invest your small capital in the gold fields.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)