Usually means: Summarizes or contains the essence.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word encapsulates:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. encapsulates: Merriam-Webster
  2. encapsulates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encapsulates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Encapsulates, encapsulates: Wordnik
  5. encapsulates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. encapsulates: Wiktionary
  7. encapsulates: Dictionary.com
  8. encapsulates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encapsulates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. encapsulates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. encapsulates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See encapsulate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encapsulate)

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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