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) 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 of direct access to some of that data, such as an object's components. Essentially, enca ...

, the combination of program code and data, and/or restriction (hide) of access to data except through dedicated code {{Disambiguation he:כימוס