encapsulation

Noun

encapsulation (countable and uncountable, plural encapsulations)

1. 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...
2. (object-oriented programming) Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
3. The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.