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- capitalization (North American and Oxford British spelling)
From capitalise + -ation.
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
capitalisation (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisations) (non-Oxford British spelling)
- 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.
- English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week.
- (in particular) The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters.
- The capitalisation of all nouns is a distinctive feature of German.
- The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).
1998, Phillip Brian Harper, Are We Not Men?, page 75:
[...] apparently indicating the degree to which his identification with black music predicates his capitalization on it [...]
- 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 state of being capitalised.
- The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
- His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote "British", sometimes "british", sometimes "briTish"...
- The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
- The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly-traded company
- (finance): cap
From capitaliser + -ation.
capitalisation f (plural capitalisations)
- “capitalisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.