Encapsulate vs Capsulize - What's the difference?
encapsulate | capsulize |
(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.
To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.
To make into a concise form; to encapsulate.
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As verbs the difference between encapsulate and capsulize
is that encapsulate is to enclose something as if in a capsule while capsulize is to enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.encapsulate
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* (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
* encapsulationcapsulize
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Verb
(capsuliz)page 289:
- Four great sayings capsulize his message: …