- Look up
encapsulation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Encapsulation may
refer to:
Molecular encapsulation, in chemistry, the
confinement of an individual...
- In
computer programming,
field encapsulation involves providing methods that can be used to read from or
write to the
field rather than
accessing the...
- Data
encapsulation, also
known as data hiding, is the
mechanism whereby the
implementation details of a
class are kept
hidden from the user. The user...
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Generic routing encapsulation (GRE) is a
tunneling protocol developed by
Cisco Systems that can
encapsulate a wide
variety of
network layer protocols...
- In
software systems,
encapsulation refers to the
bundling of data with the
mechanisms or
methods that
operate on the data. It may also
refer to the limiting...
- In cryptography, a key
encapsulation mechanism, or KEM, is a public-key
cryptosystem that
allows a
sender to
generate a
short secret key and transmit...
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Multiprotocol Encapsulation, or MPE for short, is a Data link
layer protocol defined by DVB
which has been
published as part of ETSI EN 301 192. It provides...
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Encapsulation is the computer-networking
process of
concatenating layer-specific
headers or
trailers with a
service data unit (i.e. a payload) for transmitting...
- The
definition has been expanded, and
includes most foods,
where the
encapsulation of
flavors is the most common. The
technique of
microencapsulation depends...
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Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) is a Do****ent
Structuring Convention (DSC)
conforming PostScript do****ent
format usable as a
graphics file format. The format...
