Associations to the word «Encapsulate»

Wiktionary

ENCAPSULATE, verb. (transitive) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
ENCAPSULATE, verb. (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
ENCAPSULATE, verb. (software) (object-oriented) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
ENCAPSULATE, verb. (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

Dictionary definition

ENCAPSULATE, verb. Enclose in a capsule or other small container.
ENCAPSULATE, verb. Put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope