Enclosed vs Encapsulated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between enclosed and encapsulated

is that enclosed is (enclose) while encapsulated is (encapsulate).

is contained within a three-dimensional container.

(en adjective)

Contained within a three-dimensional container.

Fenced-in or surrounded.

Having closed slats.

* included * (fenced-in) bounded, confined, encircled, surrounded,

* enclosedness

(head)

(enclose)

(head)

(encapsulate)

* (l)

(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.

* encapsulation