shrinkwrap
IPA: ʃrˈɪŋkrˈæp
noun
- A protective wrapping made from clear plastic film that is shrunk onto an object by heat
verb
- To wrap an article in shrinkwrap.
shrink wrap
IPA: ʃrˈɪŋkræp
Root Word: Shrink wrap
noun
- Shrink wrap, also shrink film, is a material made up of polymer plastic film.
- a polymer plastic film which shrinks tightly over whatever it is covering when heated, commonly used as an overwrap for packaging.
shrink-wrap
IPA: ʃrˈɪŋkrˈæp
noun
- A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
- The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
verb
- To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
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Examples of "shrinkwrap" in Sentences
- By analogy with shrinkwrap license.
- You have to look on the packaging shrinkwrap and see if it lists it.
- A sticker placed on the plastic shrinkwrap of a CD is not a reliable source.
- Another option is snakeskins camo kit (available from Cabelas), its basically a shrinkwrap for your gun.
- Unlike shrinkwrap agreements which are included in the package with the purchased product and available to the purchaser only after opening the package.
- A new algorithm written by Marchesini called "shrinkwrap" converges on the diffraction data through subsequent iterations, and finally distinguishes and subtracts the support from the sample image.
- Everyone — Davis and Rob hailing cabs, Sophia texting on her BlackBerry, Andrew, Billy — begins to shrivel like shrinkwrap around a frozen slab of meat until they morph into scowling four-foot dwarfs.
- While I might've been happy to take home a CD of the record, I found myself enticed by a sticker on the LP version indicating that inside the shrinkwrap was a unique code entitling me to a free download of the same album, in high-bitrate MP3 format.
Examples of "shrink-wrap" in Sentences
- That is less than typical Apple Store shrink-wrap prices.
- Sealed Air's products include Bubble Wrap package cushioning and Cryovac fresh-food shrink-wrap.
- Small firms typically buy basic clerical and accounting software in shrink-wrap boxes and run them on a company computer.
- You can put an old tea pot and an odd tea cup in a basket of "easter grass", add an old book, shrink-wrap it, and put a price tag on it.
- Merck has responded by switching from shrink-wrap to plastic or cardboard trays for incoming vials for a majority of its products, Mr. Robinson said.
- A trail of his-and-hers clothing lay on the floor beside five-pound bright yellow dumbbells propped up next to a Tae Bo tape that was still in its original plastic shrink-wrap.
- If you look behind the shrink-wrap on the ground, roasts, chops, and filets at the grocery store, you will discover that 83 percent of beef, 4 out of every 5 beef cattle, is processed by four companies, and 66 percent of pork is processed by four companies.
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