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In normal terms Encapsulation is defined as wrapping up of data and information

under a single unit. In Object Oriented Programming, Encapsulation is defined as


binding together the data and the functions that manipulates them. Consider a real
life example of encapsulation, in a company there are different sections like the
accounts section, finance section, sales section etc. The finance section handles
all the financial transactions and keep records of all the data related to finance.
Similarly the sales section handles all the sales related activities and keep
records of all the sales. Now there may arise a situation when for some reason an
official from finance section needs all the data about sales in a particular month.
In this case, he is not allowed to directly access the data of sales section. He
will first have to contact some other officer in the sales section and then request
him to give the particular data. This is what encapsulation is. Here the data of
sales section and the employees that can manipulate them are wrapped under a single
name “sales section”.

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