A rigid, transparent, protective casing in which a coin is placed to protect it from corrosion and damage For special collector issues, this case is usually made of two halves of an inert moulded plastic material to the exact dimensions of the coin to be protected The two halves are either screwed or pressed together to 'encapsulate' the coin
To treat a collection of structured information as a whole, without affecting or taking notice of its internal structure In communications, a message or packet that is constructed according to a protocol, such as a TCP/IP packet, may be taken with its formatting data as an undifferentiated stream of bits that is then broken up and packaged according to a lower-level protocol (for example, as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) packets) to be sent over a particular network At the destination, the lower-level packets are assembled, recreating the message as it was formatted for the encapsulated protocol
To seal a pesticide or its container in a container which will not be degraded by the pesticide, and then again within a container which will resist physical damage
To treat a collection of structured information as a whole without affecting or taking notice of its internal structure In communications, a message or packet constructed according to a protocol such as a TCP/IP packet, may be taken with its formatting data as an undifferentiated stream of bits that is then broken up and packaged according to a lower-level protocol (for example, as ATM packets) to be sent over a particular network; at the destination, the lower-level packets are assembled, re-creating the message as formatted for the encapsulated protocol
A basic protocol layering technique The information from a higher level protocol (which may include both data & headers) is carried as the data portion of lower-level protocol, which adds its own header information For example, IP datagrams are encapsulated in Data Link packets
To encapsulate particular facts or ideas means to represent all their most important aspects in a very small space or in a single object or event. A Wall Street Journal editorial encapsulated the views of many conservatives His ideas were encapsulated in a book called `Democratic Ideals and Reality'. + encapsulation encapsulations en·cap·su·la·tion a witty encapsulation of modern America