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Definitions for wrapping
ˈræp ɪŋwrap·ping

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wrapping, wrap, wrappernoun

    the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

  2. swathe, wrappingnoun

    an enveloping bandage

Wiktionary

  1. wrappingnoun

    The material in which something is wrapped

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wrapping

    of Wrap

Wikidata

  1. Wrapping

    In computing, wrapping is when a variable that exceeds its maximum value returns to its minimum value and vice-versa. Many high-level programming languages avoid wrapping by giving an arithmetic overflow error if this occurs. Camera wrapping is a technique often used in video games, which allows a player to move in a straight line and get back to where they started. This was more often used in older games to make it seem that the player is moving up or down an extremely high hill; memory can be saved by using wrapping instead of creating a larger area filled with unpassable walls: ⁕With wrapping: ⁕Without wrapping: As the diagrams above show, using wrapping will reduce the size of the area needed. Camera wrapping can also be used to simulate the surface of a cylinder or torus.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wrapping in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wrapping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of wrapping in a Sentence

  1. Marc Friedland:

    We actually use a lot of Old World craft to make these. So the dyes, the printing, the labor, the hand-wrapping makes them really interesting, i love the combination of Old World craft and modern day technology.

  2. Rania Jubran:

    The Jubran family was heavily traumatized. It took The Jubran family a very long time to even hear The Jubran family speak, at the time I was wrapping up my master's degree in clinical psychology with a focus on children, and so it was very dear to my heart seeing PTSD full-blown in front of me. It was really hard.

  3. Bernard Mandeville:

    Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

  4. Hayley Garbutt:

    I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, this year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. ( Caters News Agency) Hayley Garbutt, Hayley Garbutt, charges about $ 45-a-head for a seat at her Christmas dinner table, the Sun reports. Her guests include her three children, their partners and her four grandchildren. She also invites some friends as well. I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, she told the Sun. This year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. But its not that Im being tight - it means I get to spend more in other aspects then too like presents - this year the tree has so many presents stacked around it, that you cant even see it. WOMAN SHARES HUSBANDS ELF ON THE SHELF KITCHEN-WRAPPING PRANK : 2 HOURS LATER AND A DIVORCE ON THE CARDS So, while her family has to pay to eat dinner, Hayley Garbutt makes sure that they get their moneys worth.

  5. Mitch McConnell:

    Apparently, we're to help our adversaries ring in the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by gift-wrapping the country and handing it right back to them.

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