wrapper

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English

Pronunciation

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  Homophones: rapper

• Hyphenation: wrap‧per
• Rhymes: -æpə(r)

Etymology

to wrap + -er

Noun

wrapper (plural wrappers)

1. One who, or that which, wraps.

   He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.

2. Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.
3. A negligée or loose dressing gown.
4. (computing) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.

   We need a Perl wrapper for this C++ library.

Synonyms

• (construct that mediates access): ‎adapter‎
• wrapper class

Usage notes

• In the computing sense, wrapper is often used attributively: one can speak of a “wrapper class”, a “wrapper object”, a “wrapper function”, and so on. More broadly, one can speak of the “wrapper pattern”, which is a general term for the creation and use of such wrappers.

Translations

something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection

• Arabic: غلاف (ar) (ghilaaf) m
• Dutch: omslag (nl), verpakking (nl)
• French: enveloppe (fr) f, emballage (fr) m

• Spanish: envoltura (es), envoltorio (es)
• Swedish: omslag (sv)

a negligée or loose dressing gown

• Irish: scaoilteog (ga) f

• Swedish: linne (sv)

a person who wraps parcels etc

• French: emballeur (fr) m, emballeuse (fr) f