kebab case

noun

kebab case

noun

Etymology In allusion to the appearance of a shish kebab, with various food items assembled on a skewer. Additionally, the coincidence that kebabs and camels are both archetypally Near Eastern was probably not lost on the computer programmers who coined the names kebab case and camel case.

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences The practice of writing identifiers using hyphens to separate words.

Related terms
charstring, hyphenated, hyphenation

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