Capture

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Capture can refer to a number of things aside from its usual dictionary definitions:

• In abstract strategy games (such as Chess), the process of eliminating or immobilising an opponent's game piece.
• In radio, FM capture is a phenomenon of frequency modulation.

In media:

• Videography, the process of recording (capturing) video
  • Video capture, the process of capturing video on a computer with a frame grabber
• Motion capture, the process of recording motion for a wire frame model for skeletal animation
• Photography, the process of capturing still images with a camera
• Image scanning, the process of capturing still images with an image scanner
• Screen capture, the process of capturing an image from computer screens or from part of it
  • Web capture, the process of capturing the entire web page into an image.
  • Game capture, the process of capturing the screen of a computer game.
  • Menu capture, the process of capturing an image from menu, include cascaded(multilevel) menu .

Other uses:

• (Fishing) This term is increasing being used in fishing to describe the "capture" of fish in "capture" fisheries. A capture fishery is a wild fishery and contrasts with a farmed fishery.

• (Medical) the minimal point at which a heart pacing device is able to influence the rate of the heart. Measured in milliamps.

• (Economics and political science) capture is said to occur when bureaucrats or politicians, who are supposed be acting in the public interest, end up acting systematically to favor particular vested interests.

• (Geology) Sometimes the upper courses of rivers can be captured by other rivers eroded through the watershed.

• In oil and gas law, capture is used as an archaic synonym for "extraction," notably in the common law rule of capture.

• (Pop Culture) Capture is also a famous anti-aging skincare products franchise from Parfums Christian Dior, created in 1986 and starring Sharon Stone since 2006

• Capture, a commercial insecticide containing Bifenthrin

• Capture CIS a circuit schematic capture utility, part of the OrCAD tool suite