Capture

Capture may refer to:

• Capture (chess), to remove the opponent's piece from the board by taking it with one's own piece
• Capture (politics), situations in which a government agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of other interests
• Capture (rivers), a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river is diverted from its own bed
• FM capture, a phenomenon in which only the stronger of two signals near the same FM frequency will be demodulated
• Motion capture, the process of recording movement and translating that movement onto a digital model
• Schematic capture, a step in electronic design automation at which the electronic schematic is created by a designer
  • Capture CIS, a software tool used for circuit schematic capture
• Screen capture (disambiguation), an image taken by the computer to record the visible items
• Video capture, the process of converting an analog video signal to digital form
• Capture fishery, a wild fishery in which the aquatic life is not controlled and needs to be captured or fished
• Rule of capture, common law that determines ownership of captured natural resources including groundwater, oil, gas and game animals