capitalisation

1. 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.countableuncountable

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

   • The capitalisation of all nouns is a distinctive feature of German.
3. 3

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

   • [...] apparently indicating the degree to which his identification with black music predicates his capitalization on it [...]
4. 4

   The state of being capitalised.countableuncountable

5. 5

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

   • His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote "British", sometimes "british", sometimes "briTish"...
6. 6

   The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded companycountableuncountable

   • 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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