"capitalisation" meaning in English

See capitalisation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: capitalisations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From capitalise + -ation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|capitalise|ation}} capitalise + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} capitalisation (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisations)
  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.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
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  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.
    (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.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. The act or process of capitalising.
    The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).
    Tags: countable, uncountable
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  4. The state of being capitalised. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  5. The state of being capitalised.
    The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
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  6. The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly-traded company Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cap [finance, business], capitalization [North-American, Oxford, UK] Translations (act or process of capitalising): majusculació [feminine] (Catalan), capitalisation [feminine] (French), κεφαλαιοποίηση (kefalaiopoíisi) [feminine] (Greek), kapitalisasi (Indonesian), maiusculização [feminine] (Portuguese), капитализа́ция (kapitalizácija) [feminine] (Russian), mayusculación [feminine] (Spanish), versalisering [common-gender] (Swedish) Translations (finance): capitalització [feminine] (Catalan), capitalisation [feminine] (French), Kapitalausstattung (German), kapitalisasi (Indonesian), kapitalizacja [feminine] (Polish), capitalização [feminine] (Portuguese), capitalización [feminine] (Spanish) Translations (state of being capitalised): capitalisation [feminine] (French), Großschreibung (German), versalisering [common-gender] (Swedish)
Derived forms: autocapitalization, cap, capitalization table, cap table, decapitalization, market capitalization, market cap, miscapitalisation, miscapitalization, overcapitalization, recapitalization, uncapitalization, undercapitalisation, undercapitalization Disambiguation of 'act or process of capitalising': 31 31 31 3 3 1 Disambiguation of 'finance': 20 20 10 15 15 20 Disambiguation of 'state of being capitalised': 9 9 2 40 40 1

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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
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          "text": "[...] apparently indicating the degree to which his identification with black music predicates his capitalization on it [...]",
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          "text": "His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote \"British\", sometimes \"british\", sometimes \"briTish\"..."
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "act or process of capitalising",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "majusculació"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "act or process of capitalising",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "sense": "act or process of capitalising",
      "word": "kapitalisasi"
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      "sense": "act or process of capitalising",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maiusculização"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kapitalizácija",
      "sense": "act or process of capitalising",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "капитализа́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act or process of capitalising",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    },
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      "sense": "act or process of capitalising",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "versalisering"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being capitalised",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "capitalisation"
    },
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      "sense": "state of being capitalised",
      "word": "Großschreibung"
    },
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      "sense": "state of being capitalised",
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      "word": "versalisering"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "finance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "capitalització"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "finance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "capitalisation"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "finance",
      "word": "Kapitalausstattung"
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      "sense": "finance",
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      "sense": "finance",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "capitalização"
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    "capitalisation"
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}

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  "msg": "unrecognized head form: non-Oxford British spelling",
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