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Envelope vs. Wrapper — What's the Difference?

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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