Usually means: Enclose contents within a structure.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word encapsulate:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. encapsulate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. encapsulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encapsulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encapsulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encapsulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Encapsulate, encapsulate: Wordnik
  7. encapsulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. encapsulate: Wiktionary
  9. encapsulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. encapsulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. encapsulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. encapsulate: Dictionary.com
  13. encapsulate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. encapsulate: Rhymezone
  15. encapsulate: Free Dictionary
  16. encapsulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. encapsulate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. encapsulate: Legal dictionary
  2. encapsulate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encapsulate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encapsulate: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encapsulate: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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

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