Usually means: Restricting access to object components.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word encapsulation:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. encapsulation: Merriam-Webster
  2. encapsulation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encapsulation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. encapsulation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Encapsulation, encapsulation: Wordnik
  6. encapsulation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. encapsulation: Wiktionary
  8. Encapsulation, encapsulation: Dictionary.com
  9. Encapsulation (computer programming), Encapsulation (computer science), Encapsulation (disambiguation), Encapsulation (networking), Encapsulation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Encapsulation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. encapsulation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. encapsulation: Rhymezone
  13. Encapsulation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. encapsulation: FreeDictionary.org
  15. encapsulation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. encapsulation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. encapsulation: Legal dictionary
  2. encapsulation: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encapsulation: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. encapsulation: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. Encapsulation: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Technopedia (No longer online)
  7. encapsulation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. encapsulation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. International Publications (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. encapsulation: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Biological Control (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encapsulation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See encapsulate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encapsulation)

noun:  The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
noun:  (programming, object-oriented programming) Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
noun:  (networking) The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

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