encapsulation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.
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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]).

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

Derived terms

• bioencapsulation
• hyperencapsulation
• key encapsulation mechanism
• macroencapsulation
• microencapsulation
• nanoencapsulation
• photoencapsulation

Translations

act of enclosing in a capsule

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 封装 (zh) (fēngzhuāng)

• Finnish: kapselointi (fi)
• French: encapsulation (fr)
• German: Abkapselung
• Indonesian: enkapsulasi (id)
• Japanese: カプセル化 (ja) (かぷせるか, kapuseruka)
• Romanian: încapsulare (ro) f
• Spanish: encapsulación
• Turkish: encapsulation (tr)

object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state

• Czech: zapouzdření n
• Esperanto: enkapsuligo
• Finnish: kapselointi (fi)
• French: encapsulation (fr)
• German: Kapselung f
• Greek: ενθυλάκωση (el) f (enthylákosi)
• Icelandic: hjúpun f
• Persian: پنهانیدن, پنهانش

networking: arranging data into packets

• Finnish: paketointi (fi)
• Persian: لفیدن, لفش

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ capsule +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kap.sy.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

encapsulation f (plural encapsulations)

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