encapsulate

English

WOTD – 15 June 2012    

Alternative forms

• incapsulate

Etymology

From en- + capsule + -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/

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. (software, object-oriented) 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 as if in a capsule

• Armenian: պա­տիճա­վորել (hy) (patičavorel)
• Dutch: inkapselen (nl)
• Finnish: kapseloida (fi), koteloida (fi)
• French: encapsuler (fr)
• German: einkapseln (de), kapseln (de), verkapseln (de)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innkapsle (nb), kapsle inn (nb)

  Nynorsk: kapsle inn (nn)

to epitomize

• Finnish: tiivistää (fi), kiteyttää (fi)

• German: zusammenfassen (de)

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

• Armenian: ներ­պա­րունա­կել (hy) (nerparunakel)
• Dutch: inkapselen (nl)
• French: encapsuler (fr)
• German: kapseln (de)

• Icelandic: hjúpa (is)
• Russian: инкапсулировать (ru) (inkapsulírovatʹ) impf. / pf.