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Encapsulated vs Capsulated - What's the difference?

encapsulated | capsulated |

As a verb encapsulated

is past tense of encapsulate.

As an adjective capsulated is

enclosed in a capsule.

encapsulated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (encapsulate)

    • 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.
  • * '>citation
  • 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

    capsulated

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Enclosed in a capsule
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=May 11, Bruce R. Levin & Rustom Antia, Why We Don't Get Sick: The Within-Host Population Dynamics of Bacterial Infections, Science citation
    • , 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. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=John William Henry Eyre, title=The Elements of Bacteriological Technique, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated ) pneumococcus. }}