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means The point where investors give up resisting losses and sell in a rush, surrendering to the market's downtrend.

from From Latin capitulum, 'little head' or 'chapter,' via capitulare, 'to draw up under headings' — the word originally meant negotiating terms of surrender, laid out article by article, as in a military capitulation. It kept that sense of formal surrender through English, and finance borrowed it directly: the market doesn't just lose, it signs the terms and gives in.