encapsulate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/
encapsulate (encapsulates, present participle encapsulating; past and past participle encapsulated)
- (transitive) To enclose something 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.
- (software, object-oriented) 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.
- French: encapsuler
- German: einkapseln, kapseln, verkapseln
- Portuguese: encapsular, embrulhar
- German: zusammenfassen
- Portuguese: resumir, sintetizar, epitomizar
- French: encapsuler
- German: kapseln
- Russian: инкапсули́ровать
- German: kapseln
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