Envelope vs. Wrapper — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Envelope and Wrapper
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Envelope
An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin, flat material. It is designed to contain a flat object, such as a letter or card.
Wrapper
A piece of paper, plastic, or foil covering and protecting something sold or for sale
A sweet wrapper
Cellophane wrappers
Envelope
A flat paper container with a sealable flap, used to enclose a letter or document.
Wrapper
A loose robe or gown
She put a wrapper over her nightdress
Envelope
A covering or containing structure or layer
The external envelope of the swimming pool
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Wrapper
The material, such as paper, in which something is wrapped
A candy wrapper.
Envelope
A flat paper container, especially for a letter, usually having a gummed flap.
Wrapper
The material encircling a magazine or newspaper sent by mail.
Envelope
Something that envelops; a wrapping.
Wrapper
A book jacket.
Envelope
(Biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane or the outer coat of a virus.
Wrapper
The tobacco leaf covering a cigar.
Envelope
The bag containing the gas in a balloon or airship.
Wrapper
A loose dressing gown or negligee.
Envelope
The set of limitations within which a technological system, especially an aircraft, can perform safely and effectively.
Wrapper
One that wraps, as a store employee who wraps parcels.
Envelope
A usually spherical region of interstellar matter surrounding a forming star and interacting with the star's gravitational and radiation fields.
Wrapper
Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.
Envelope
The coma of a comet.
Wrapper
An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown.
Envelope
(Mathematics) A curve or surface that is tangent to every one of a family of curves or surfaces.
Wrapper
One who, or that which, wraps.
He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.
Envelope
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
Wrapper
(object-oriented) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.
We need a Perl wrapper for this C++ library.
Envelope
Something that envelops; a wrapping.
Wrapper
One who, or that which, wraps.
Envelope
A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
Wrapper
That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.
Envelope
(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects. Category:en:Curves
Wrapper
Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.
Envelope
(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
Wrapper
A loose dressing gown for women
Envelope
(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
Wrapper
The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
Envelope
(computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
Wrapper
Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
Envelope
(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
Envelope
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
Envelope
(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
Envelope
An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Envelope
Archaic form of envelop
Envelope
That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
Envelope
The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; - called also coma.
Envelope
A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
Envelope
A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
Envelope
A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft; - it is often described graphically as a two-dimensional graph of a function showing the maximum of one performance variable as a function of another. Now it is also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.
Envelope
A flat rectangular paper container for papers
Envelope
Any wrapper or covering
Envelope
A curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
Envelope
A natural covering (as by a fluid);
The spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet
Envelope
The maximum operating capability of a system;
Test pilots try to push the envelope
Envelope
The bag containing the gas in a balloon
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