capsule

Noun

• a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute

• a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space

• a structure that encloses a body part

• a shortened version of a written work

• a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses

• a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside

• a small container

Verb

• put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
  • capsulize the news
    

• enclose in a capsule

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ejection seat , ejector seat , space capsule , condensation , abridgement , abridgment , encapsulate , capsulize , capsulise , capsulate