CAPSULE


Meaning of CAPSULE in English

n.1 a small soluble case of gelatine enclosing a dose of medicine and swallowed with it.

2 a detachable compartment of a spacecraft or nose-cone of a rocket.

3 an enclosing membrane in the body.

4 a a dry fruit that releases its seeds when ripe. b the spore-producing part of mosses and liverworts.

5 Biol. an enveloping layer surrounding certain bacteria.

6 (attrib.) concise; highly condensed (a capsule history of jazz).

Derivatives:

capsular adj. capsulate adj.

Etymology: F f. L capsula f. capsa CASE(2)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.