meaning of encapsulation
1. The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.
2. encapsulation 1. The technique used by layered protocols in which a layer adds header information to the protocol data unit PDU from the layer above. As an example, in Internet terminology, a packet would contain a header from the physical layer, followed by a header from the network layer IP, followed by a header from the transport layer TCP, followed by the application protocol data. 2. The ability to provide users with a well-defined interface to a set of functions in a way which hides their internal workings. In object-oriented programming, the technique of keeping together data structures and the methods procedures which act on them.
3. the process of enclosing as in a capsule
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