Encapsulation

Encapsulation may refer to:

Chemistry

• Molecular encapsulation, in chemistry, the confinement of an individual molecule within a larger molecule
• Capsule (pharmacy), in pharmacy, the enclosure of a medicine within a relatively stable shell for administration
• 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.

Electronics

• Potting (electronics), encapsulation of electrical components

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

See also

• Separation of concerns, a program design objective that may be sought with encapsulation.