capitalisation

noun capitalisations · capitalization

1. countable, uncountable 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.
2. countable, uncountable, 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.
3. countable, uncountable The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it). [...] apparently indicating the degree to which his identification with black music predicates his capitalization on it [...]
4. countable, uncountable The state of being capitalised.
5. countable, uncountable 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"...
6. countable, uncountable The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded company I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

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