Encapsulates vs Encompasses - What's the difference?
encapsulates | encompasses |
(encapsulate)
(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.
(encompass)
To form a circle around; to encircle.
To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
As verbs the difference between encapsulates and encompasses
is that encapsulates is while encompasses is (encompass).encapsulates
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Verb
(head)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
* encapsulationencompasses
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Verb
(head)encompass
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Verb
(es)- This book on English grammar encompasses all irregular verbs.
- Drake encompassed the globe.