Wrapper
Encyclopedia
Wrapper generally refers to a type of packaging, such as a flat sheet made out of paper
, cellophane
or plastic
to enclose an object.
Wrapper may also refer to:
Paper
Paper is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon, drawing or for packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
, cellophane
Cellophane
Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils, greases, bacteria and water makes it useful for food packaging...
or plastic
Plastic
A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids used in the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular mass, and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce production costs...
to enclose an object.
Wrapper may also refer to:
- Wrapper (clothing)Wrapper (clothing)The wrapper or pagne is a colorful women's garment widely worn in West Africa. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored ensembles. The formality of the wrapper depends on the fabric used to create it. The wrapper is called an Iro in the Yoruba...
, a woman's garment which is worn over nightwear or lingerie - Wrapper, the outer leaf of tobacco used in cigar makingCigarA cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and the Eastern...
- Newspaper wrapper
Computing
- Wrapper functionWrapper functionA wrapper function is a function in a computer program whose main purpose is to call a second function with little or no additional computation. This is also known as method delegation. Wrapper functions can be used for a number of purposes....
, a function whose main purpose is to call a second function - Wrapper libraryWrapper libraryIn computer programming, a library is a collection of subroutines or classes used to develop software. Libraries expose interfaces which clients of the library use to execute library routines. Wrapper libraries consist of a thin layer of code which translates a library's existing interface into a...
- Driver wrapperDriver wrapperA driver wrapper is software that functions as an adapter between an operating system and a driver, such as a device driver, that was not designed for that operating system. It can enable the use of devices for which no drivers for the particular operating system are available...
, software that functions as an adapter between an operating system and a driver - Wrapper pattern, where some computer programming code allows certain classes to work together that otherwise would not
- Driver wrapper
- Wrapper (data mining)Wrapper (data mining)Wrapper in data mining is a program that extracts content of a particular information source and translates it into a relational form. Many web pages present structured data - telephone directories, product catalogs, etc. formatted for human browsing using HTML language...
, a technique used in data mining - Primitive wrapper classPrimitive wrapper classA primitive wrapper class in the Java programming language is one of eight classes provided in the package to provide object methods for the eight primitive types. All of the primitive wrapper classes in Java are immutable...
, a computer term referring to a Java class in object-oriented programming - TCP WrapperTCP WrapperTCP Wrapper is a host-based networking ACL system, used to filter network access to Internet Protocol servers on operating systems such as Linux or BSD...
, software used for filtering network access