encapsulate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
20
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/

Definition of encapsulate

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
    “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.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
    “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.
    “It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal ...”
  3. To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
  4. To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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