encapsulate
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
encapsulate (third-person singular simple present encapsulates, present participle encapsulating, simple past and past participle encapsulated)
- (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, "Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):
- At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years.
- 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, "Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):
- (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August”, in The Daily Telegraph (UK)[1]:
- It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal ...
- (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
Derived terms
Translations
to enclose as if in a capsule
|
to epitomize
|
object-oriented programming: To enclose objects in a common interface
|
networking: to enclose data in packets
|
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-
- English terms prefixed with en-
- English terms suffixed with -ate
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- en:Software
- en:Object-oriented programming
- en:Networking