capitalisation

English

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Alternative forms

• North America: capitalization

Etymology

capitalise +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

capitalisation (plural capitalisations)

1. The act or process of capitalising.
   • 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 [...]

2. The state of being capitalised.

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

3. The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly-traded company
   • 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel:

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

Translations

act or process of capitalising

• Greek: κεφαλαιοποίηση (el) (kefalaiopoíisi) f (kefalaiopoíisi)

state of being capitalised

• German: Großschreibung

finance

• German: Kapitalausstattung