Encapsulation

Look up encapsulation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Encapsulation may refer to:

Chemistry

• Molecular encapsulation, in chemistry, the confinement of an individual molecule within a larger molecule
• Micro-encapsulation, in material science, the coating of microscopic particles with another material

Biology

• Cell encapsulation, technology made to overcome the existing problem of graft rejection in tissue engineering applications

Computing

• Encapsulation (networking), the process of adding control information as it passes through the layered model
• Encapsulation (object-oriented programming), enclosing objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes

Rocketry

• Encapsulation, the payload fairing surrounding a payload on a rocket-powered launch vehicle.