capitalization
pronunciation
How to pronounce capitalization in British English:
UK [ˌkæpɪtəlaɪ'zeɪʃn]
How to pronounce capitalization in American English:
US [ˌkæpɪtəlaɪ'zeɪʃn]
-
- 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
Word Origin
- capitalization (n.)
- 1860, "act of converting (assets) to capital," noun of action from capitalize in the financial sense. Meaning "act of writing or printing in capital letters" is recorded from 1864.
Example
- 1. The indexes are based mathematically on the market capitalization of the companies .
- 2. Although it can be tempting to lazily write a headline as if it is a sentence ( something that I have also been guilty of ) , take care to use capitalization rules for headlines and keep them as short as possible .
- 3. Much of yahoo 's $ 20 billion market capitalization is tied to its investments in asian internet companies .
- 4. The collective market capitalization of these five companies is just $ 75 billion today , according to factset .
- 5. In that time , apple has sold more than 25 million tablets and added nearly $ 100 billion in market capitalization .