Encapsulation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule. countable, uncountable

    "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])."

  2. 2
    the process of enclosing (as in a capsule) wordnet
  3. 3
    Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the condition of being enclosed (as in a capsule) wordnet
  5. 5
    The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol. countable, uncountable

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"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])."

Etymology

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

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