ENCASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encased mean? 

• ENCASED (adjective)
  The adjective ENCASED has 1 sense:

1. covered or protected with or as if with a case

  Familiarity information: ENCASED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered or protected with or as if with a case

Synonyms:

cased; encased; incased

Context example:

products encased in leatherette

Similar:

sheathed (enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

Flybys from NASA's Voyager and Galileo spacecraft have led scientists to conclude that Europa is covered by a layer of salty liquid water encased in an icy shell.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

For three weeks, a titanium-encased hydrophone recorded ambient noise from the ocean floor at a depth of more than 36,000 feet, or 7 miles, in the Challenger Deep trough in the Mariana Trench near Micronesia.

(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)

Finely cut tobacco encased in a wrapper of thin paper and rolled for smoking.

(Cigarette, NCI Thesaurus)

Axons of neurons encased in a lipoproteinaceous material called myelin.

(Myelinated Nerve Fiber, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Tiny filaments and tubes formed by bacteria that lived on iron were found encased in quartz layers in the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB), Quebec, Canada.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

IceCube is an array of 5,160 optical sensors, each roughly two feet in diameter, deeply encased within a cubic kilometer of very clear Antarctic ice near NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)

A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Now, five months later, the post office delivered my letter to her—all chewed up by the machinery as I had suspected, it was encased in a special post office envelope. (The post office is ruled by Mercury.) You simply can’t make this up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is a picture, and I can see it now,—the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all comers; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)