Summarize vs Encapsulate - What's the difference?
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To prepare a summary of something
To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review
(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.
As verbs the difference between summarize and encapsulate
is that summarize is to prepare a summary of something while encapsulate is to enclose something as if in a capsule.summarize
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* summarise (UK )Verb
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(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.