camelize

From camel +‎ -ize.

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.
   • 2014, Jeremias Esperanza, My First In Java:

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

2. To make or become a camel or camel-like.
   • 1888, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 33, page 686:

     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.

   • 1980, Howard Hillman, The art of winning corporate grants, page 87:

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

   • 2004, Ayobami Oke, Ajuwayah!:

     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 […]