capitalisation

Noun

capitalisation (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisations)

1. 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.
   • English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week.
2. The 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.
   • 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
3. The 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
4. The state of being capitalised.
   1. The 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"...
5. The 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