encapsulate

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.

To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.

It's a little moment that seems to encapsulate her appeal ...

To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.