encapsulation

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.
   • 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^[1], volume 12, number 10, →DOI, archived from the original on 18 April 2025:

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

From en- +‎ capsule +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kap.sy.la.sjɔ̃/

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encapsulation f (plural encapsulations)

1. encapsulation
2. (object-oriented programming) encapsulation