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Encapsulation

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, encapsulation means: Keeping an object's internal state behind a controlled interface so that other code does not depend on its internal representation.

In Turkish: kapsülleme

How it is used

Used in code reviews when discussing private fields, public methods and class boundaries. It helps explain why direct access to internal state can be fragile.

Example sentences

  1. Encapsulation prevents callers from changing the account balance without validation.

  2. Returning the internal list directly would weaken encapsulation.

Common collocations

  • preserve encapsulation
  • break encapsulation
  • data encapsulation
  • classIn object-oriented programming, a template that defines the data and behavior of a type of object, such as a User or an Invoice.
  • objectA unit in a program that groups related data and the functions that work on it, for example a user object with a name, an email and a login method.
  • interfaceIn programming, a list of methods that a class promises to provide, without saying how they work. More generally, the point where two systems, or a user and a system, meet.

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