encapsulate

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To cover something as if in a capsule.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
  3. Verb.  (computers, programming) to enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

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