encapsulation
nounEtymology From en- + capsule + -ation or encapsulate + -ion.
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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:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
Object-oriented programming
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Networking, Physical sciences, Sciences The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.