different between encapsulation vs inheritance

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

encapsulation (countable and uncountable, plural encapsulations)

1. The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
2. (programming, object-oriented programming) Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
3. (networking) The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

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French

Etymology

en- +? capsule +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.kap.sy.la.sj??/

Noun

encapsulation f (plural encapsulations)

1. encapsulation
2. (object-oriented programming) encapsulation

English

Alternative forms

• enheritance (obsolete)
• enheritaunce (obsolete)
• inheritaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since 1473, inherit +? -ance. More at inherit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?h???t?ns/

Noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
3. (uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

   The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

4. (biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5. (programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• inheritance law
• preheritance

Related terms

• inherit
• inheritable
• inheritor

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References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “inheritance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary