Meaning & use
encapsulation
The act of enclosing something completely, or expressing a complex idea in a brief, condensed form.
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The pill's encapsulation protects the medicine until it dissolves in the stomach.
In programming, encapsulation hides an object's internal details from the rest of the code.
A note on using this word
In computer science, encapsulation is a core principle of object-oriented programming, bundling data and methods together while hiding internal details.
Words with a similar meaning
enclosurecontainment
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