Capital

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Capital may refer to:

• 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 letter, an upper-case letter in a writing system
• Capital punishment, the death sentence
• Capitals (typeface), a small-caps serif typeface

Architecture

• Capital (architecture), the crowning member of a column or a pilaster
• Capital (fortification), a proportion of a bastion

Colleges, seminaries, and universities

• 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 College, a private, non-profit, and non-sectarian college located just south of Laurel, Maryland
• Penn State Harrisburg, also called: The Capital College[citation needed], an undergraduate college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, in Middletown, Pennsylvania

Forms of capital

• 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
• Cultural capital, the advantage individuals can gain from mastering the cultural tastes of a privileged group
• 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
• Infrastructural capital, means of production other than natural capital
• 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
• Political capital, means by which a politician or political party may gain support or popularity
• Positive psychological capital, the value of an individual's level of optimism, hope, resilience, self-efficacy
• Social capital, the value of social networks to individuals embedded in them
• Symbolic capital, it can be language and/or images that circulate as power. Or, symbolic capital is one of the four types of capital in Pierre Bourdieu's theory; it can be a type of capital that is strongly correlated to social capital, and it comes into existence once it is perceived and recognized as legitimate.
• Working capital, short term capital needed by the company to finance its operations

Media

Radio

• Capital Radio (disambiguation), various radio stations named Capital
• Capital (radio network), a network of nine Independent Local Radio stations in the United Kingdom

Literature

• Capital (novel), a novel by John Lanchester

Publications

• Capital: Critique of Political Economy, a work by political economist Karl Marx
• 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, online newszine published in Albany, New York
• Capital Ethiopia, also known as: Capital, an Ethiopian business-oriented weekly English-language newspaper
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century a book by French economist Thomas Piketty
• Capital New York, an online news site owned by Politico
• The Capital, a daily newspaper based in Annapolis, Maryland, United States

Films

• Capital (film), 2012 French drama film

Sports

• Canberra Capitals, an Australian women's basketball team
• Capital Clube de Futebol, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
• Edinburgh Capitals, a Scottish ice-hockey team
• Edmonton Capitals, a baseball team
• Washington Capitals, a National Hockey League team (USA)

Transportation and vessels

• 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

See also

• All pages beginning with "Capital"
• All pages with titles containing "Capital"
• Capitalism
• Capitalization (disambiguation)
• List of national capitals