encapsulate
verb🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪt/
🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they encapsulate | 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪt/ 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪt/ |
| he / she / it encapsulates | 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪts/ 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪts/ |
| past simple encapsulated | 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle encapsulated | 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form encapsulating | 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪnˈkæpsjuleɪtɪŋ/ |
- encapsulate something (in something)
to express the most important parts of something in a few words, a small space or a single object 简述；概括；压缩 Oxford Collocations DictionaryEncapsulate is used with these nouns as the object:- essence
Word Originlate 19th cent. (also as incapsulate): from en-, in- ‘into’ + Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa related to capere ‘to hold’.