wrapper
/ˈræp.ər/
noun
- A piece of paper, plastic, or other material that covers and protects something, especially food or a product.
- The cheese was still in its plastic wrapper.
- He threw the candy wrapper in the trash.
- She carefully removed the wrapper from the gift box.
- A person or machine that wraps items, such as gifts or products.
- The factory uses an automatic wrapper for the boxes.
- The gift wrapper at the store did a beautiful job.
- She worked as a wrapper in the bakery, packaging bread.
- In computing, a piece of software that provides a simplified interface to a more complex system or function.
- A wrapper class in Java allows primitive types to be used as objects.
- This library is a wrapper for the graphics engine.
- The developer created a wrapper to make the API easier to use.