Generalize vs Encapsulate - What's the difference?
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To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
* W. Nicholson
To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
* Coleridge
(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.
As verbs the difference between generalize and encapsulate
is that generalize is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms while encapsulate is (label) to enclose something as if in a capsule.generalize
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* generalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Copernicus generalized' the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton ' generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
- A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.
Antonyms
* specializeDerived terms
* generalizable, generalisable * generalizability, generalisability * generalization, generalisation * generalizer, generaliser * generalistencapsulate
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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.