Wrapper

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Wrapper generally refers to a type of packaging, such as a flat sheet made out of paper, cloth, 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 containing both data and metadata

See also

• All pages beginning with Wrapper
• All pages with a title containing Wrapper
• Label (disambiguation)
• Wrap (disambiguation)