Wrapped vs Encapsulated - What's the difference?
wrapped | encapsulated |
(wrap)
(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.
As verbs the difference between wrapped and encapsulated
is that wrapped is past tense of wrap while encapsulated is past tense of encapsulate.As an adjective wrapped
is encased in a wrapping.wrapped
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Alternative forms
* wraptVerb
(head)Derived terms
* a riddle wrapped up in an enigmaencapsulated
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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.