Caps Lock
nounUK /kæps lɒk/
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An input mode in which all letters of bicameral scripts are generated in capital letters.
- Please check if Caps Lock is on when typing your password.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A lock key on a computer keyboard that activates this mode.
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Broadly, Informal All caps.
- I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan: