capitalisation — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act or process of capitalising. Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase.

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   Examples

   English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week.

2. The act or process of capitalising. Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase. The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters.

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   • in particular

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   The capitalisation of all nouns is a distinctive feature of German.

   Race is a flawed concept to begin with, and while the capitalisation of the “b” assuages race politics, it also validates race politics.

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   Frequent, sometimes unexpected capitalisations are customary in Dickinson’s writing, and here they gain additional nuance.

3. The act or process of capitalising. The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).

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   [...] apparently indicating the degree to which his identification with black music predicates his capitalization on it [...]

4. The state of being capitalised.

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5. The state of being capitalised. The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.

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   His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote "British", sometimes "british", sometimes "briTish"...

6. The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded company

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   I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

Noun

1. writing in capital letters

   Synonyms

   capitalization

   Broader terms

   writing

2. an estimation of the value of a business

   Synonyms

   capitalization

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   estimateestimation

3. the act of capitalizing on an opportunity

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   capitalization

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   exploitationdevelopment

4. the sale of capital stock

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   capitalization

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   sellingmerchandisingmarketing