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Encapsulated vs Encapsulates - What's the difference?

encapsulated | encapsulates |

As verbs the difference between encapsulated and encapsulates

is that encapsulated is (encapsulate) while encapsulates is .

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

    encapsulates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (encapsulate)