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Encapsulate vs Capsulize - What's the difference?

encapsulate | capsulize |

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

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(encapsulat)
  • (label) 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.
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * encapsulation

    capsulize

    English

    Verb

    (capsuliz)
  • To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.
  • To make into a concise form; to encapsulate.
  • * 1999 , (w), Weaver's Wisdom , glossary entry for ‘Yogaswami’, page 289:
  • Four great sayings capsulize his message: …