Alpha ( uppercase Α, lowercase α ; Álpha ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

The lowercase letter o for octet is defined as the symbol for octet in IEC 80000-13 and is commonly used in several non-English languages ( e. g., French and Romanian ), and is also used with metric prefixes ( for example, ko and Mo )

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

If the relative priorities of these substituents need to be established, R takes priority over S. When this happens, the descriptor of the stereocenter is a lowercase letter ( r or s ) instead of the uppercase letter normally used.

Delta ( uppercase Δ, lowercase δ ; Délta ; Modern Greek ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

*∂-the partial derivative symbol, sometimes mistaken for a lowercase Greek letter Delta.

Digamma ( or wau, uppercase, lowercase ; as a numeral: stigma, ϛ ) ( compare sigma ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which originally stood for the sound and later remained in use only as a symbol for the number " 6 ".

In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

In Turkish each of these are separate letters, rather than versions of other letters, where dotted capital İ and lower case i are the same letter, as are dotless capital I and lowercase ı. Typographically, Ç and Ş are often rendered with a subdot, as in ; when a hook is used, it tends to have more a comma shape than the usual cedilla.

Epsilon ( uppercase, lowercase or lunate ; ) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a close-mid front unrounded vowel.

Some of them resembled a modern lowercase Latin " e ", some a " 6 " with a connecting stroke to the next letter starting from the middle, and some a combination of two small " c "- like curves.

Eta ( uppercase Η, lowercase η ) ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet.

Following an extension of the above standard, an exoplanet's name is normally formed by taking the name of its parent star and adding a lowercase letter.

If a planet orbits one member of a binary star system, then an uppercase letter for the star will be followed by a lowercase letter for the planet.

The letter sigma has an additional lowercase form ( ς ) used in the final position:

Gamma ( uppercase, lowercase ; Gámma ) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet.

Therefore whenever ( G ) appears before another representative lowercase letter ( subject ), the statement would read, " It is always Going to be the case ..." and whenever ( F ) appears before another subject, the statement would read, " At sometime in the Future it will be the case ...." Whenever ( H ) appears before another subject, the statement would read, " It Has always been the case ..." and whenever ( P ) appears before another subject, the statement would read, " At sometime in the Past it has been the case ...."

As with all units whose names are derived from the proper name of a person, the first letter of its symbol is uppercase (" G "), but when the unit is spelled out, it should always be written in lowercase (" gauss "), unless it begins a sentence.

For example, in written English ( or other languages using the Latin alphabet ), there are many different physical representations of the lowercase letter " a ", such as a, ɑ, etc.

Iota ( uppercase Ι, lowercase ι ; ) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

Lambda ( uppercase Λ, lowercase λ ; or, lamda or lamtha ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Originally, the only symbol for the litre was l ( lowercase letter L ), following the SI convention that only those unit symbols that abbreviate the name of a person start with a capital letter.

** Some systems require characters from various character classes in a password — for example, " must have at least one uppercase and at least one lowercase letter ".

The lowercase letter e — Because ink has a tendency to fill the bowl of this letter, two variations have appeared.

The lowercase letter g — The lowercase letter g has a wide variety of shapes.

The lowercase letter p — In italic type, this lowercase letter often has a half-way ascender as the vertical extension of the descender.

The lowercase letter q — In block letters, some Europeans like to cross the descender to prevent confusion with the numeral 9, which also can be written with a straight stem.

The lowercase letter r — For a form used in the Middle Ages, see half r.

The lowercase letter s — See long s.

The lowercase letters u and v — These letters have a common origin and were once written according to the location in the word rather than the sound.

In this case, a lowercase identifier represents a pattern that matches any value, which then is bound to a variable of that name — in this case, a variable “” is bound to the integer value stored in the data type — to be used in the expression to be evaluated.

U + 010C ( uppercase Č — use Alt 268 for input ) and U + 010D ( lowercase č — use Alt 269 for input ) create this character.

As Clark recounted in his 1976 book, Rock, Roll and Remember: " I hung up a very modest sign in lowercase print — dick clark productions — and started producing.

To deemphasize the term's eponymous character, modern writers often lowercase it ( babbitt metal — as with " diesel engine ").

The name eastern Moldova ( usually with either a lowercase " e ") refers — usually in a historical context — to the eastern territory of the old Principality of Moldova, roughly equal in territory to the present-day Republic of Moldova, minus Transnistria.

The symbol for bit, as a unit of information, is either simply " bit " ( recommended by the ISO / IEC standard 80000-13 ( 2008 )) or lowercase " b " ( recommended by the IEEE 1541 Standard ( 2002 )).

In the Serbian / Macedonian alphabet, the lowercase letter Be has a different printed form as shown in the illustration which shows both the standard and variant form.

Cursive lowercase De has the same two shapes, but with a different distribution: for example, the g-shaped variant is a standard for Russian schools.

In callygraphy and in general handwritten text, lowercase з can be written either fully over the baseline ( similar to the printed form ) or with the lower half under the baseline and with the loop ( for the Russian language, a standard shape since the middle of the 20th century ).

Also, izhitsa in its standard form or ( mostly ) in a tailed variant ( similar to lowercase y ) was a part of a digraph оѵ / оу representing sound / u / ( the digraph is known as Cyrillic letter Uk, and today's Cyrillic letter U originates from its simplified form ).

Some comics, such as Pearls Before Swine, also use lowercase speech to mark a distinctive accent ( in this case, the male crocodiles ’ accented speech, opposed to all other characters who use standard uppercase speech ).

In C and C ++, keywords and standard library identifiers are mostly lowercase.

It was, until OpenType made advanced typographic features more common, one of only a few fonts in common usage that contained old style, or ranging figures, which are designed to harmonize with standard upper-and lowercase text.