capsule
/ˈkæpsjuːl/US/ˈkæps(ə)l/
capsule noun: a membranous envelope.
Noun
capsule (plural capsules)
- A membranous envelope.
- A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 4-5
- A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- in a brief, condensed or compact form
- If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.1962, John F. Kennedy, We choose to go to the moon
- The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- Synonyms:
- pod
Verb
capsule (third-person singular simple present capsules, present participle capsuling, simple past and past participle capsuled)
- To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
- To encapsulate or summarize.
capsule meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
capsule in Tamil
- பொதிமருந்து மாத்திரை, மருத்துறை, மாத்திரையின் பொதியுறை, புட்டியின் உலோக அடைப்பு, உலர்ந்து வெடிக்கும் விதையுறை, நெற்று
capsule in Bengali
- ক্যাপসুল, ছোট পাত্র
capsule in Telugu
- capsule
- గుళిక guḷika
capsule in Malayalam
- സംപുടം, ചർമ്മപത്രരൂപമായ ആവരണം
More languagesFewer languages
- capsule in Kannada
- ಕೋಶ, ಸಂಪುಟ, ಭರಣಿ, ಪೊರೆ
- capsule in Punjabi
- ਕੈਪਸਲ
- capsule in Gujarati
- કેપ્સ્યૂલ, કેપ્સ્યુલ
- capsule in Nepali
- क्यापसुल
- capsule in Tagalog
- kapsula
- capsule in Arabic
- كَبْسُولة kabsūla
- capsule in Indonesian
- kapsul
- capsule in Persian
- کپسول kapsul
- capsule in Vietnamese
- viên thuốc con nhộng
Examples of capsule in a sentence
- Some manufacturers isolated the electronic circuitry and hermetically sealed it in a metal capsule.
- The astronaut hung weightlessly in the capsule.
- Gen Zers are taking to TikTok to film themselves unpeeling conkers from their spiky capsules.
Synonyms of capsule
Forms of capsule
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | capsules |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | capsules |
| present participle | capsuling |
| past participle | capsuled |
| past | capsuled |
Origin of capsule
Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).
Words formed from capsule
- baby capsule
- biocapsule
- Bowman's capsule
- caplet
- capsular
- capsulate
- capsulation
- capsulectomy
- capsule hotel
- capsule of lens
- capsuler
- capsule review
- capsuliferous
- capsuliform
- capsuligenous
- capsulise
- capsulitis
- capsulize
- capsulogenesis
- capsulogenic
- capsuloligamentous
- capsulorhexis
- capsulotomy
- egg capsule
- egg-capsule
- encapsule
- Glissonian capsule
- glomerular capsule
- intercapsule
- macrocapsule
- microcapsule
- nanocapsule
- nasal capsule
- otic capsule
- pseudocapsule
- renal capsule
- sense capsule
- space capsule
- Spansule
- subcapsule
- synovial capsule
- tabsule
- Tenonian capsule
- Tenon's capsule
- time capsule
Phrases with capsule
Questions about capsule
- What does capsule mean?
- Capsule means a membranous envelope.
- What is capsule in Tamil?
- Capsule in Tamil is பொதிமருந்து மாத்திரை, மருத்துறை, மாத்திரையின் பொதியுறை. See Capsule meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is capsule?
- Capsule can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce capsule?
- Capsule is pronounced /ˈkæps(ə)l/ (US).
- What is the plural of capsule?
- The plural of capsule is capsules.
Words near capsule in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: capsule (page history and authors); capsule (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); capsule (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గుళిక (Telugu) (page history and authors); capsule (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); capsule (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); capsule (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); capsule (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); capsule (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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