capitalisation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of capitalising.

   “English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of capitalising.

   “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.”

   “Frequent, sometimes unexpected capitalisations are customary in Dickinson’s writing, and here they gain additional nuance.”

3. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of capitalising.

   “[...] apparently indicating the degree to which his identification with black music predicates his capitalization on it [...]”

4. (countable, uncountable)The state of being capitalised.
5. (countable, uncountable)The state of being capitalised.

   “His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote "British", sometimes "british", sometimes "briTish"...”

6. (countable, uncountable)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.”