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 and electronics

  • An alternate term for conformal coating or potting, which protects electronic components
  • Encapsulation (networking), the process of adding control information as it passes through the layered model
  • Encapsulation (computer programming), the combination of program code and data, and/or restriction (hide) of access to data except through dedicated code
Topics referred to by the same term
Disambiguation icon
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Encapsulation.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.