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bicapitalization

bicapitalization noun: the practice of spelling a two-word name without a space, using a capital letter to indicate the start of each constituent word. (Most words thus formed, but not all, are trade names.).

Noun (1)

bicapitalization (uncountable)

  1. The practice of spelling a two-word name without a space, using a capital letter to indicate the start of each constituent word. (Most words thus formed, but not all, are trade names.)
    • Retain internal capitalization for trademark names that use bicapitalization, or intercaps, in which one or more letters within names are capitalized in addition to the names' first letter (eg, ScienceDirect and AstraZeneca). However, convert trademark names to conventional capitalization when they...2024, Council of Science Editors, The CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 9th edition, Council of Science Editors and University of Chicago Press, →DOI...

Noun (2) capitalized: BiCapitalization

BiCapitalization (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of bicapitalization.

Forms of bicapitalization

alternative formBiCapitalization

Origin of bicapitalization

From bi- + capitalization, or, by surface analysis, bi- + capitalize + -ation.

The autological spelling of the word.

Questions about bicapitalization

What does bicapitalization mean?
Bicapitalization means the practice of spelling a two-word name without a space, using a capital letter to indicate the start of each constituent word. (Most words thus formed, but not all, are trade names.).
What part of speech is bicapitalization?
Bicapitalization is a noun.

Words near bicapitalization in the dictionary

  1. bicamerate
  2. bicamerist
  3. bicamerists
  4. bicanalicular
  5. bicanonical
  6. bicapitalization
  7. bicapitalized
  8. bicapitate
  9. bicapped
  10. bicapsular
  11. bicarb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bicapitalization (page history and authors); BiCapitalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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