"camelize" meaning in English

See camelize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: camelizes [present, singular, third-person], camelizing [participle, present], camelized [participle, past], camelized [past]
Etymology: From camel + -ize. Etymology templates: {{af|en|camel|-ize}} camel + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} camelize (third-person singular simple present camelizes, present participle camelizing, simple past and past participle camelized)
  1. (computing) To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-camelize-en-verb-Yq9W4bsw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 94 6 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. To make or become a camel or camel-like.
    Sense id: en-camelize-en-verb-w9ueY-it

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2014, Jeremias Esperanza, My First In Java:",
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        "(computing) To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case."
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          "ref": "1888, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 33, page 686:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1980, Howard Hillman, The art of winning corporate grants, page 87:",
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