camelize

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verb

To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

verbcamelize (third-person singular simple present camelizes, present participle camelizing, simple past and past participle camelized)

present singular third person camelizes · participle present camelizing · participle past camelized · past camelized

  1. computingTo change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.

    We may use a camelized form to improve readability. You can use also underscore in between words if you want the identifier separated.

    2014, Jeremias Esperanza, My First In Java
  2. To make or become a camel or camel-like.

    A camel has been facetiously described as a horse designed by a committee. Do not "camelize" your proposal.

    1980, Howard Hillman, The art of winning corporate grants, page 87
    2 more examples

    Slowly the horses grow more horse-like, the shadowy camel begins to camelize himself, the buffaloes acquire the rudiments of horns, the deer branch out by tentative steps into still more complicated and more complicated antlers.

    1888, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 33, page 686

    Apart from making monkeys out of us, NYSC attempted to camelize us. It may be because they discovered only a few like that round beautiful lady were born with tails, they fabricated a camel-simulating programme […]

    2004, Ayobami Oke, Ajuwayah!

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “camelize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/camelize.

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