the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
形容词 lowercase:
relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case
双语例句
All of the signs were printed using lower case lettering. 所有的标志都是用小写字母打印出来的。
For English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters. 就英语而言,排字工人通常有两个字盘,即包含大写字母的上方字盘和包含小写字母的下方字盘。