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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
encapsulate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Two lines of the song neatly encapsulate Gregg's romantic philosophy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Not all immigrants are encapsulated to the same extent.
▪ Or, does it encapsulate a mystery of crucial importance for the dying to contemplate?
▪ Place the other sheet of glass on top, squashing down the sealant and encapsulating the picture.
▪ Rather we have to ask what was the experience which gave rise to the beliefs and which they encapsulate, however inadequately.
▪ Their supernatural protagonists had encapsulated the virtues and vices of human beings, thoroughly homogenized.
▪ These traditions were encapsulated in everything which we did and which we were taught.
▪ This class, in the Sklar-Becker formulation, encapsulates the best interests, in a developmentalist sense, of the nation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
encapsulate

1842 (implied in encapsulated), "enclose in a capsule," from en- (1) "make, put in" + capsule + -ate (2). Figurative use by 1939. Related: Encapsulating.

Wiktionary
encapsulate

vb. 1 (label en transitive) To enclose something as if in a capsule. 2 (label en transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary. 3 (label en software object-oriented) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes. 4 (label en networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

WordNet
encapsulate
  1. v. enclose in a capsule or other small container

  2. put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news" [syn: capsule, capsulize, capsulise]

Usage examples of "encapsulate".

And I saw Astel in those eyes, laughing at me, and Tacit in those eyes, proclaiming that he, not I, was the hero, and I saw the contempt of the knights, the sneers of the squires, the disdain of Stroker, everyone, all encapsulated in this one neat package.

I saw Astel in those eyes, laughing at me, and Tacit in those eyes, proclaiming that he, not I, was the hero, and I saw the contempt of the knights, the sneers of the squires, the disdain of Stroker, everyone, all encapsulated in this one neat package.

Snell reports a case in which a piece of steel was imbedded and encapsulated in the ciliary process twenty-nine years without producing sympathetic irritation of its fellow, but causing such pain as to warrant enucleation of this eye.

Living and growing pancreatic cells are encapsulated in a coiled tube of semipermeable membrane, a co-polymer of polyvinyl chloride and poly acrylonitrile.

His egocentricity encapsulates the mockery, fantasy, and intellectuality that place him strongly in the Lucianic tradition.

But that is why classes in which encapsulated lectures are distributed still must be attended, if you are wise.

She was pointing at the cooler and he went to set it right side up, as if that could make any difference to what was encapsulated inside.

The sounds of the night creatures outside the cabin added to the feeling of greater intimacy, for they seemed encapsulated within the cabin, totally cut off from the rest of the world.

It was almost as if it had turned to stone as she lay there encapsulated in a frozen block of terror and could not now reverse the process.

And a tightly encapsulated one it had been, wound around and through itself, dwelling within itself completely, needing none other.

Now, as an inducement to Fairgoers to buy the more expensive front-row box seats to watch the forthcoming cremation, the Committee bought several hundred Anti-Murphy pills and encapsulated a pill with each front-row ticket.

OSI model each layer encapsulates the layer immediately above it as the data flows down the protocol stack.

Adam opened the door from down below and stood waiting on the steps, looking as relieved as she had felt when he had returned from encapsulating the canister and disposing of the chemical gear.

Various media encapsulating IDENTICAL text will still fare differently.

Commentary The essence of whatever don Juan said at the beginning of my apprenticeship is encapsulated in the abstract nature of the quotations selected from the first book, The Teachings of Don Juan.