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English
Etymology
From en- + capsule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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 February 9, Matthew L. Wald, “Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds”, in 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.
- (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):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
object-oriented programming: To enclose objects in a common interface
networking: to enclose data in packets
Spanish
Verb
encapsulate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of encapsular combined with te