Encapsulation
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Encapsulation may refer to:
- information hiding and separation of concerns, 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