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Capita

Caput \Ca"put\ (k[=a]"p[u^]t), n.; pl. Capita (k[a^]p"[i^]*t[.a]). [L., the head.]

  1. (Anat.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

  2. The top or superior part of a thing.

  3. (Eng.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.

    Your caputs and heads of colleges.
    --Lamb.

    Caput mortuum. [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

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capita

n. 1 (lang=en caput) 2 person

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capita

See caput

caput
  1. n. a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula"

  2. the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window" [syn: head]

  3. [also: capita (pl)]

Wikipedia
Capita

Capita plc , commonly known as Capita, is an international business process outsourcing and professional services company headquartered in London. It is the largest business process outsourcing and professional services company in the UK, with an overall market share of 27% in 2009, and has clients in central government, local government and the private sector. It also has a property and infrastructure consultancy division which is the fourth largest multidisciplinary consultancy in the UK. Roughly half of its turnover comes from the private sector and half from the public sector. Whilst UK-focused, Capita also has operations across Europe, Africa and Asia.

Capita is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Usage examples of "capita".

He sent the curule magistrates to the middle rear, then between the two rows of stools facing each other he put the Allobroges, Volturcius, Caeparius, Lentulus Sura, Cethegus, Statilius, Gabinius Capita and Fabius Sanga.

Anglia natus est puer geminus a clune ad superiores partes ita divisus, ut duo haberet capita, duo corpora integra ad renes cum suis brachiis, qui baptizatus triduo supervixit.

In the United Kingdom, where these diseases are decreasing, there has been no material increase in the use of tobacco, and the per capita consumption is less than one-third that of the United States.

It would cost the nonaddicts about ten dollars per capita or forty dollars per family, per year, to match that.

But there are also more saunas per capita than anywhere on Earth, including Finland.

Experts point out that federal per capita murder statistics rely on outdated Dade County population figures that exclude thousands of illegal aliens and winter residents.

Iraqi GNP declined in 1989, and per capita income fell to half of what it had been in 1980.

Thus, Kurdistan gets slightly more per capita than the rest of the country.

In the Philippines the work was done at a per capita cost of a little more than ten cents.

Fifteen, twenty, sometimes as high as thirty-five percent unemployment, sixty percent of the people on food stamps, a per capita income of a thousand, maybe even less than, a thousand dollars a year.

Era vero che Travis era parso autenticamente scosso dalla terribile esperienza che le era capitata, ed era anche vero che in una certa misura doveva l'integrità, e forse anche la vita, al suo arrivo all'ultimissimo momen­to.

Furthermore, the per capita income in Baraza was still only sixty dollars a year, and industrialization had hardly begun.

On a per capita basis, the Star Kingdom's economy was actually somewhat stronger, but in absolute terms Manticore's entire gross domestic product would disappear with scarcely a ripple into the League's economy.

It is not necessarily representative per capita, but it most surely is ad valorem.

Then I'll need a separate chart that breaks out per capita liquid fuel production, with two subcharts, one showing per capita production, and one that takes per capita production of say, five years ago, and increases it by the percentage of economic growth for the whole Artosan economy.