encapsulate

1. (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.Examples: "At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years."transitive

2. (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.Examples: "It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal ..."transitive

3. (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

4. (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.