What does capitalization mean?

Definitions for capitalization
ˌkæp ɪ tl əˈzeɪ ʃəncap·i·tal·iza·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. capitalization, capitalisationnoun

    writing in capital letters

  2. capitalization, capitalisationnoun

    an estimation of the value of a business

  3. capitalization, capitalisationnoun

    the act of capitalizing on an opportunity

  4. capitalization, capitalisationnoun

    the sale of capital stock

ChatGPT

  1. capitalization

    Capitalization refers to the combined value of all outstanding shares of a company, often used to assess its total market value. It can also refer to the use of capital letters at the beginning of sentences and proper nouns, or the sum of a company's long-term debt, stock, and retained earnings used in accounting.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Capitalizationnoun

    the act or process of capitalizing

Wikidata

  1. Capitalization

    Capitalization is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter and the remaining letters in lower case. This of course only applies to those writing systems which have a case distinction. The term is also used for the choice of case in text. Conventional writing systems for different languages have different conventions for capitalization. The systematic use of capitalized and uncapitalized words in running text is called "mixed case". Conventions for the capitalization of titles and other classes of words vary between languages, and to a lesser extent between different style guides. In some written languages, it is not obvious what is meant by the "first letter": for example, the South-Slavic digraph 'lj' is considered as a single character for collation purposes and can be represented by a single Unicode character, but at the start of a word it is written 'Lj': only the L is capitalised. In contrast, in Dutch, the digraph 'ij' is fully capitalized in initial position, for instance in the name of the city of IJmuiden.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of capitalization in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of capitalization in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of capitalization in a Sentence

  1. Gary Morgenthaler:

    This is a new platform war with huge stakes, it ultimately challenges search and the market capitalization of Google.

  2. Planning Minister Dyogo de Oliveira:

    We reached the conclusion that the possibility of a capitalization due to a delisting is low.

  3. John Martin:

    With CPP's capitalization and the availability of permanent capital earmarked for our business, we are confident we will be as competitive as we were under GE.

  4. Sergio Galvan:

    We're very upbeat about credit demand, but we'll have to see how the capitalization of banks evolves and whether it can keep apace with this appetite for credit.

  5. Bill McDermott:

    I believe so, absolutely, the best way for a company to stay independent is to grow and to have a good market capitalization.

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