Meanings
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1
noun
paper, plastic, or another material folded around an object to cover or protect it
He dropped the empty sandwich wrapper into the bin.
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2
noun
a loose outer garment or dressing gown, especially one worn by a woman; now dated
She pulled a white wrapper around her shoulders before answering the door.
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3
noun
a software layer that provides a simpler or different interface to another program or component
The team wrote a small wrapper around the older library.
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Etymology
From wrap + the agent or instrument suffix -er, with a Middle English predecessor wrappere. The garment and covering senses both name something that wraps; the computing sense extends that protective or enclosing function metaphorically.