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Encased vs Encapsulated - What's the difference?

encased | encapsulated |

As verbs the difference between encased and encapsulated

is that encased is (encase) while encapsulated is (encapsulate).

encased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (encase)
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    encase

    English

    Alternative forms

    * incase

    Verb

    (encas)
  • To enclose, as in a case.
  • *1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
  • 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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    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.
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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.
  • Derived terms

    * encapsulation