encapsulate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.

   • It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal ...
3. 3

   To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and…

   To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

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   1. 4

      To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

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