encapsulate

English

WOTD – 15 June 2012, 15 June 2013, 15 June 2014, 15 June 2015

Alternative forms

• incapsulate

Etymology

From en- +‎ capsule +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Verb

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

1. (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.

2. (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 ...

3. (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.
4. (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

Derived terms

• bioencapsulated
• coencapsulate
• encapsulatable
• encapsulation
• encapsulator
• macroencapsulate
• microencapsulate
• microencapsulated
• nanoencapsulate
• nanoencapsulated
• nonencapsulated
• overencapsulate
• photoencapsulate
• unencapsulate
• unencapsulated

Translations

to enclose as if in a capsule

Armenian: պատիճավորել (patičavorel) Danish: indkapsle (da) Dutch: inkapselen (nl) Esperanto: enkapsuligi Finnish: kapseloida (fi), koteloida (fi) French: encapsuler (fr) German: einkapseln (de), kapseln (de), verkapseln (de) Maori: kōpaki Norwegian: Bokmål: innkapsle, kapsle inn Nynorsk: kapsle inn Portuguese: encapsular, embrulhar (pt) Romanian: încapsula (ro), capsula (ro) Swedish: kapsla in (sv), inkapsla (sv) Ukrainian: капсулюва́ти impf or pf (kapsuljuváty)

to epitomize

Chinese: Mandarin: 概括 (zh) (gàikuò), 梗概 (zh) (gěnggài) Danish: sammenfatte, samle (da) Finnish: tiivistää (fi), kiteyttää (fi) German: zusammenfassen (de) Korean: 요약하다 (ko) (yoyakhada), 집약하다 (ko) (jibyakhada) Norwegian: sammenfatte Portuguese: resumir (pt), sintetizar (pt), epitomizar Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)

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

Armenian: ներպարունակել (nerparunakel) Chinese: Mandarin: 封装 (zh) (fēngzhuāng) Dutch: inkapselen (nl) Esperanto: enkapsuligi French: encapsuler (fr) German: kapseln (de) Icelandic: hjúpa Russian: инкапсули́ровать (ru) impf or pf (inkapsulírovatʹ) Ukrainian: інкапсулюва́ти impf or pf (inkapsuljuváty)

networking: to enclose data in packets

German: kapseln (de)

Spanish

Verb

encapsulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of encapsular combined with te