Wrapper
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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:
- Wrapper (clothing), both a woman's garment which is worn over nightwear or lingerie in North America, and a colorful women's garment widely worn in West Africa
- Wrapper, the outer leaf of tobacco used in cigar making
- Newspaper wrapper
- The Dust jacket of a hardcover book
- Wrapper (philately), postal stationery which pays the delivery cost of a newspaper or a periodical
Computing
- Wrapper function, a function whose main purpose is to call a second function
- Wrapper library
- Driver wrapper, 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
- Wrapper (data mining), a technique used in data mining
- Primitive wrapper class, a computer term referring to a Java class in object-oriented programming
- TCP Wrapper, software used for filtering network access.
- Service wrapper, software that enables other programs to be run as services or daemons
- A digital container format for metafiles