Encapsulate vs Envelope - What's the difference?
encapsulate | envelope |
(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.
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
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, title= Something that envelops; a wrapping.
A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
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(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
(computing) The information used for routing an email that is transmitted with the email but not part of its contents.
(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane.
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
(nonstandard)
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As verbs the difference between encapsulate and envelope
is that encapsulate is (label) to enclose something as if in a capsule while envelope is (nonstandard).As a noun envelope is
a paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.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
* encapsulationenvelope
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Etymology 1
From the (etyl) enveloppe, from envelopper.Noun
(en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope , or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
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