Decapsulation

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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Decapsulation is the process of stripping off one layer's headers and passing the rest of the packet up to the next higher layer on the protocol stack.

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Variants

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plural: Decapsulations
possessive: Decapsulation's
pluralpossessive: Decapsulations'

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