Encase vs Encapsulate - What's the difference?
encase | encapsulate |
To enclose, as in a case.
*1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
(label) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
* 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, "
(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 encase and encapsulate
is that encase is to enclose, as in a case while encapsulate is to enclose something as if in a capsule.encase
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* incaseVerb
(encas)- They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.
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* * * *encapsulate
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* (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.
