encapsulation

English

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.
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
• 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
• 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