A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...
One of the most critical aspects of object-oriented programming is encapsulation, which allows one to define labels for the data members and member functions, to specify if they are accessible from ...
(1) Secretly embedding data in graphics images and other file types. See steganography. (2) The result of encapsulation in object-oriented programming. See encapsulation. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...