Encapsulated vs Capsulated - What's the difference?
encapsulated | capsulated |
(encapsulate)
(label) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
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(label) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
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To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
(label) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
Enclosed in a capsule
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, passage=If the colonizing population of the ancestral capsulated strains is too small, a sufficient number of unencapsulated variants (mutants) may not be generated and invasion will not take place. }}
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, passage=Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated ) pneumococcus. }}
As a verb encapsulated
is past tense of encapsulate.As an adjective capsulated is
enclosed in a capsule.encapsulated
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Verb
(head)encapsulate
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(encapsulat)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.
Derived terms
* encapsulationcapsulated
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Adjective
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