Dictionary

encapsulation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From en- + capsule + -ation or encapsulate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
   • Recent studies demonstrate that encapsulation of the healing agent provides successive repair by reducing the capsules’ diameter to the material granulometry [2] and by casting them through materials compatible to concrete (i.e., [3]). 2022 May 9, Eleni Tsangouri et al., “Reservoir-Vascular Tubes Network for Self-Healing Concrete: Performance Analysis by Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation and Ultrasound Velocity”, in Applied Sciences, volume 12, number 10, →DOI, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025:
2. (countable, qualifier:object-oriented programming, uncountable) Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
3. (countable, uncountable) The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

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Deriveds

photoencapsulation · bioencapsulation · nanoencapsulation · macroencapsulation · microencapsulation · key encapsulation mechanism · hyperencapsulation

Translations (21)

eo enkapsuligo (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · fa پنهانیدن (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · id enkapsulasi (act of enclosing in a capsule) · cs zapouzdření (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · es encapsulación (act of enclosing in a capsule) · fa پنهانش (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · is hjúpun (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · fi kapselointi (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · ro încapsulare (act of enclosing in a capsule) · tr encapsulation (act of enclosing in a capsule) · cmn 封装 (act of enclosing in a capsule) · el ενθυλάκωση (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · de Abkapselung (act of enclosing in a capsule) · fi paketointi (networking: arranging data into packets) · fa لفیدن (networking: arranging data into packets) · fi kapselointi (act of enclosing in a capsule) · fr encapsulation (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · de Kapselung (object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state) · fr encapsulation (act of enclosing in a capsule) · fa لفش (networking: arranging data into packets) · ja カプセル化 (act of enclosing in a capsule)