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Capital most commonly refers to:
- Capital letter, an upper-case letter in any type of writing.
- Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government.
- Capital (economics), a factor of production that is not wanted for itself but for its ability to help in producing other goods.
Capital may also refer to:
Capital (Economics)[edit source | edit]
See all terms: Category:Capital (economics).
Some common terms include:
- Capital (economics), a factor of production that is not wanted for itself but for its ability to help in producing other goods
- Capital requirement or "bank capital", the requirement that banks keep certain monetary reserves
- Financial capital, any form of wealth capable of being employed in the production of more wealth
- Human capital, workers' skills and abilities as regards their contribution to an economy
- Intellectual capital, intangible assets, for example, knowledge, resource know-how and processes
- Natural capital, the resources of an ecosystem that yields a flow of goods and services into the future
- Physical capital, any non-human asset made by humans and then used in production
- Public capital, means of production other than natural capital
- Working capital, short term capital needed by the company to finance its operations
- Cultural capital, the advantage individuals can gain from mastering the cultural tastes of a privileged group
- Political capital, means by which a politician or political party may gain support or popularity
- Social capital, the value of social networks to individuals embedded in them
- Symbolic capital, in Pierre Bourdieu's theory; a type of capital correlated to social capital, that comes into existence once it is recognized
Writing[edit source | edit]
- Capital letter, an upper-case letter in any type of writing.
- Capitals (typeface), a small-caps serif typeface
- Illuminated capital in a manuscript
Psychology[edit source | edit]
- Positive psychological capital, the value of an individual's level of optimism, hope, resilience, self-efficacy
Architecture[edit source | edit]
- Capital (architecture), the crowning member of a column or a pilaster
- Capital (fortification), a proportion of a bastion
- The Capital (building), a commercial building in Mumbai, India
Colleges, seminaries, and universities[edit source | edit]
- Capital Bible Seminary, the seminary component of Washington Bible College with its main campus in Lanham, Maryland
- Capital Community College, a community college in Hartford, Connecticut
- Capital University, a four-year private university in Columbus, Ohio
- Capitol Technology University, a private, non-profit, and non-sectarian college located just south of Laurel, Maryland
Media[edit source | edit]
Books[edit source | edit]
- Capital: Critique of Political Economy, a work by political economist Karl Marx
- Capital: The Eruption of Delhi, a book by Rana Dasgupta
- Capital (novel), a novel by John Lanchester
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century a 2013 bestselling book by French economist Thomas Piketty
Film and television[edit source | edit]
- Capital (film), 2012 French drama film
- Capital (Iranian TV series), an Iranian TV Series
- Capital (UK TV series), a three part BBC television adaptation of John Lanchester's novel of the same name
Music[edit source | edit]
- Capital (band), a band from the UK
- Capital Cities (band), a band from the US
- "Capital", a song by We Stood Like Kings from the album USSR 1926 (2015), a new soundtrack for the silent movie A Sixth Part of the World
- Capital (album), by British singer-songwriter Mick Softley
Periodicals[edit source | edit]
- Capital (French magazine), a French-language magazine
- Capital (German magazine), a German-language magazine
- Capital (newspaper), a Bulgarian business-oriented weekly newspaper
- Capital (Romanian newspaper), a Romanian business-oriented weekly newspaper
- Capital (Ukrainian newspaper), a Ukrainian weekly newspaper
- Kapital (newspaper), a Macedonian weekly newspaper
- Kapital (magazine), a Norwegian business magazine
- Capital Ethiopia, also known as: Capital, an Ethiopian business-oriented weekly English-language newspaper
- Capital New York, an online news site owned by Politico
- A Capital, a defunct daily newspaper in Lisbon, Portugal
- The Capital, a daily newspaper based in Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Radio[edit source | edit]
- Capital Radio (disambiguation), various radio stations named Capital
- Capital (radio network), a network of nine Independent Local Radio stations in the United Kingdom
Sports[edit source | edit]
- Capital Clube de Futebol, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
- Delhi Capitals, an Indian basketball team
- Edinburgh Capitals, a Scottish ice-hockey team
- Edmonton Capitals, a baseball team
- University of Canberra Capitals, an Australian women's basketball team
- Vienna Capitals, an Austrian ice-hockey team
- Washington Capitals, a National Hockey League team (USA)
Transportation[edit source | edit]
- Capital (sidewheeler), a 19th-century American steamboat
- Capital Airlines (UK), was an airline based in the United Kingdom and self-proclaimed "Yorkshire International Airlines"
- Capital ship, a classification of a naval vessel