encapsulate

Etymology

From en- + capsule + -ate.

verb

1. (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
   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. Feb 9 2014, Matthew L. Wald, “Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-14
2. (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
   It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal ... 21 January 2014, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August”, in The Daily Telegraph (UK)
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.