shrink-wrap

See also: shrinkwrap

English

Noun

shrink-wrap (countable and uncountable, plural shrink-wraps)

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.

Derived terms

• shrinkwrap license

Translations

plastic film that is used to protect an item

• Esperanto: ŝrumpfolio
• German: Schrumpffolie f
• Hungarian: zsugorfólia (hu), fólia (hu)

wrapping around a shrink-wrapped item

• Catalan: retractilació f
• Esperanto: ŝrumpfolio
• German: Schrumpffolienverpackung f

Verb

shrink-wrap (third-person singular simple present shrink-wraps, present participle shrink-wrapping, simple past and past participle shrink-wrapped)

1. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).

   We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.

2. (paleontology) To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, this results in a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.