English Explanatory Dictionary

shrink-wrap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
  2. The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
verb
  1. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
  2. To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.

Word forms

shrink-wrap shrink-wraps shrink-wrapping shrink-wrapped

Etymology

From shrink + wrap.

Related words

heat shrink shrinkage shrink rate cling film cling wrap food wrap glad wrap Saran Wrap saran-wrap

Derived words

shrinkwrap license
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