capitalisation

noun7

1. •
   The act or process of capitalising.
2. •
   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
3. •
   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.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   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"...
6. •
   The state of being capitalised.
7. •
   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