underwrappings

Noun

underwrapping (plural underwrappings)

1. The act of underwrapping something.
   • Mechanised underwrapping and the rapid, efficient, automatic cross-tying of newspaper bundles are forging the final link of complete automation in the mailing rooms not only of many of the United Kingdom's major newspaper houses but also leading publishing houses in overseas countries.1967, World's Press News and Advertisers' Review - Volume 77
2. A material that forms an underwrapped layer.
   • How carefully done up — tissue-paper underwrapping as well !1901, Edmund Mitchell, Only a Nigger, page 251
3. (molecular biology) A state of being insufficiently desolvated, so that the main chain of hydrogen bonds in a protein are too accessible, rendering the protein unstable.
   • Crystal structures from PDB were analyzed totest whether duplicability of a geneis affected by its underwrapping (Liang et al., 2008).2011 -, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology, →ISBN