capsule

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, smooth case containing medicine that you swallow whole.

   The doctor told me to take one capsule twice a day.

2. 2
   noun

   A small container, especially one designed to hold or protect something.

   They buried a time capsule full of photos in the school garden.

3. 3
   noun

   The part of a spacecraft in which the crew travels.

   The astronauts returned to Earth inside the capsule.

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).

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