Capture

Capture can refer to a number of things aside from its usual dictionary definitions:

• In radio, FM capture is a phenomenon of frequency modulation.

• The process of capturing video on a computer is called 'video capture'.

• The process of capturing an image from computer screen or from part of it is called 'screen capture'.

• In public choice theory and political science, capture is said to occur when bureaucrats or politicians, who are supposed be acting in the public interest, end up acting systematically to favor particular vested interests.

• Sometimes the upper courses of rivers can be captured by other rivers eroded through the watershed.

• For a screen capture program called Capture [1], see Capture (application)

• In oil and gas law, capture is used as an archaic synonym for "extraction," notably in the common law rule of capture.