capitalisation

Plural: capitalisations

Noun

• writing in capital letters
• an estimation of the value of a business
• the act of capitalizing on an opportunity
• the sale of capital stock
• 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.
• 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.
• The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters.
• The act or process of capitalising.
• The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).
• The state of being capitalised.
• The state of being capitalised.
• The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
• The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded company

Examples

• "English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week."
• "His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote "British", sometimes "british", sometimes "briTish"..."
• "The capitalisation of all nouns is a distinctive feature of German."

Synonyms

cap, capitalization