ENCAPSULATION

'Encapsulation' may refer to:

★ separation of concerns and information hiding, in software engineering, the process of enclosing programming elements inside larger, more abstract entities

★ integrated circuit encapsulation, in electronics the design and manufacture of protective packages

★ micro-encapsulation, means to confine material

★ molecular encapsulation, means to confine molecules

★ encapsulation (pharmacology), to enclose medicines in a usable form

★ encapsulation (networking), in computer networking, is to include data from an upper layer protocol in a lower layer protocol