say it: kuh-pich-uh-LAY-shuhn
capitulation is a noun meaning "a document containing the terms of surrender". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a document containing the terms of surrender
a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic
the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
“they were protected until the capitulation of the fort”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for capitulation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.