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Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæps(ə)l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæpsjuːl/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkæpʃuːl/
capsule (plural capsules)
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
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:
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.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
- (winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- (chemistry, dated) 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.
- Synonym: pod
- 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
- encapsule
- Glissonian capsule
- glomerular capsule
- intercapsule
- macrocapsule
- microcapsule
- nanocapsule
- nasal capsule
- pseudocapsule
- renal capsule
- sense capsule
- space capsule
- Spansule
- subcapsule
- synovial capsule
- tabsule
- Tenonian capsule
- Tenon's capsule
- time capsule
physiology: membranous envelope
- Afrikaans: kapsule
- Bulgarian: капсула f (kapsula)
- Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
- Finnish: kotelo (fi)
- French: capsule (fr) f
- German: Kapsel (de) f
- Greek: κάψα (el) f (kápsa)
- Hungarian: tok (hu)
- Persian: کپسول (fa) (kapsul)
- Polish: torebka stawowa f
- Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
- Russian: ка́псула (ru) f (kápsula)
- Spanish: cápsula (es) f
- Ukrainian: ка́псула (uk) f (kápsula)
botany: seed-case
- Afrikaans: kapsule
- Bulgarian: шушулка (bg) f (šušulka)
- Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: tobolka f
- Finnish: kota (fi)
- French: capsule (fr) f
- Galician: bagaña f
- German: Kapsel (de) f
- Greek: κάψα (el) f (kápsa)
- Hungarian: gubó (hu), (of the poppy) mákgubó (hu), (of the flax) lengubó (hu), toktermés (hu)
- Italian: capsula (it) f
- Japanese: 蒴果 (さくか, sakuka)
- Korean: 삭과 (sakgwa)
- Latvian: pogaļa (lv) f
- Polish: torebka (pl) f, torebka nasienna f
- Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
- Romanian: capsulă (ro) f
- Russian: коро́бочка (ru) f (koróbočka)
- Spanish: cápsula (es) f
- Tagalog: damladbunga
- Turkish: kapsül (tr)
part of spacecraft containing crew's living space
- Afrikaans: kapsule
- Bulgarian: капсула f (kapsula)
- Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 太空囊 (tàikōngnáng)
- Finnish: kapseli (fi)
- French: capsule (fr) f
- German: Kapsel (de) f
- Greek: θαλαμίσκος (el) m (thalamískos)
- Hungarian: űrkabin (hu)
- Japanese: カプセル (ja) (kapuseru)
- Korean: 캡슐 (kaepsyul)
- Persian: کپسول (fa) (kapsul)
- Polish: kapsuła (pl) f
- Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
- Russian: ка́псула (ru) f (kápsula)
- Spanish: cápsula (es) f
- Tagalog: litsidlan
- Ukrainian: ка́псула (uk) f (kápsula)
small container containing a dose of medicine
- Afrikaans: kapsule
- Arabic: كَبْسُولة f (kabsūla)
- Belarusian: ка́псула f (kápsula)
- Bulgarian: капсула f (kapsula)
- Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: kapsle f, tobolka f
- Danish: kapsel (da) c
- Finnish: kapseli (fi)
- French: capsule (fr) f, gélule (fr) f
- German: Kapsel (de) f
- Greek: κάψα (el) f (kápsa), κάψουλα (el) f (kápsoula)
- Hungarian: kapszula (hu)
- Icelandic: hylki (is) n
- Indonesian: kapsul (id)
- Italian: capsula (it) f
- Japanese: カプセル (ja) (kapuseru)
- Javanese: kapsul
- Korean: 캡슐 (kaepsyul)
- Persian: کپسول (fa) (kapsul)
- Plautdietsch: Kaupsel f
- Polish: kapsułka (pl) f
- Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
- Romanian: capsulă (ro) f
- Russian: ка́псула (ru) f (kápsula)
- Slovak: kapsula f
- Slovene: kápsula (sl) f
- Spanish: cápsula (es), píldora (es) f
- Tagalog: kapsula
- Tarifit: reknina f
- Turkish: kapsül (tr)
- Ukrainian: ка́псула (uk) f (kápsula)
- Vietnamese: viên thuốc con nhộng
winemaking: the covering over the cork at the top of the wine bottle
capsule (third-person singular simple present capsules, present participle capsuling, simple past and past participle capsuled)
- (transitive) To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
- (transitive) To encapsulate or summarize.
Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula. Doublet of kapsel.
capsule f (plural capsules, diminutive capsuletje n)
Borrowed from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (whence caisse).
capsule f (plural capsules)
- capsule
- bottle cap
- cap or primer for a gun
- (Quebec) video or audio presentation
- “capsule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
capsule f
capsule
- inflection of capsular: