capitalisation

Meanings

nouncapitalisation (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisations)

plural capitalisations · alternative North American Oxford UK capitalization

The act or process of capitalising.
1. countableuncountableChoice 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. countableuncountableThe 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.
  2 more examples
  Race is a flawed concept to begin with, and while the capitalisation of the “b” assuages race politics, it also validates race politics.
  2021 June 3, Minna Salami, “Why I don’t believe the word ‘black’ should always have a capital ‘b’”, in The Guardian
  Frequent, sometimes unexpected capitalisations are customary in Dickinson’s writing, and here they gain additional nuance.
  2023 June 19, Carol Rumens, “Poem of the week: She rose to His Requirement by Emily Dickinson”, in The Guardian
3. countableuncountableThe 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 [...]
  1998, Phillip Brian Harper, Are We Not Men?, page 75
countableuncountableThe state of being capitalised.
1. countableuncountableThe 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"...
countableuncountableThe 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.
1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC