encapsulate

English

Verb

encapsulate (third-person singular simple present encapsulates, present participle encapsulating, simple past and past participle encapsulated)

1. (transitive) To cover something as if in a capsule.
2. (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
3. (computing, programming, in object-oriented programming) to enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes

Derived terms

• encapsulation

Translations

To cover something as if in a capsule

Finnish: kapseloida (fi), koteloida (fi) French: encapsuler (fr)

German: einkapseln (de), kapseln (de), verkapseln (de)

To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary

Finnish: tiivistää (fi), kiteyttää (fi)

object-oriented programming: To enclose objects in a common interface

French: encapsuler (fr)

Icelandic: hjúpa (is)