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 any type of writing.
  • Capitals (typeface), a small-caps serif typeface
  • Illuminated capital in a manuscript
• Capital punishment, the death sentence

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 Technology University, a private, non-profit, and non-sectarian college located just south of Laurel, Maryland

Resources

• 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
• 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, in Pierre Bourdieu's theory; a type of capital correlated to social capital, that comes into existence once it is recognized

Media

Sports

• 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

• 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 a title containing Capital
• Capitalism
• Capitalization (disambiguation)
• List of national capitals