Definition of Caption. Meaning of Caption. Synonyms of Caption

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Definition of Caption

Caption
Caption Cap"tion, n. [L. captio, fr. caper to take. In senses 3 and 4, perhaps confounded in meaning with L. caput a head. See Capacious.] 1. A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.] This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. --Bacon. 2. The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. [R.] --Bouvier. 3. (Law) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed. --Bouvier. --Wharton. 4. The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [U. S.]

Meaning of Caption from wikipedia

- Look up caption in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caption may refer to: Caption (text), explanatory text about specific published photos and articles...
- Closed captioning (CC) is a form of subtitling, a process of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional...
- A caption is a short descriptive or explanatory text, usually one or two sentences long, which accompanies a photograph, picture, map, graph, pictorial...
- Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs. In some cases captions and cutlines...
- CAPTION was an annual comics convention specialising in British small press comics. It was first held in Oxford in January 1992, subsequently being held...
- Captions is a video-editing and AI research company headquartered in New York City. Their flagship app, Captions, is available on iOS, Android, and Web...
- A caption contest or caption competition is a competition between multiple parti****nts, who are required to give the best description for a certain image...
- The National Captioning Institute, Inc. (NCI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides real-time and off-line closed captioning, subtitling...
- conventions can vary, captions are subtitles that include written descriptions of other elements of the audio, like music or sound effects. Captions are thus especially...
- The Rear Window Captioning System (RWC) is a method for presenting, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a film in theatres for deaf...