Word wrap

ability of a word processor to transfer entire words to the next line if they exceed the margins

Word wrap refers to a feature supported by most text editors that allows them to insert soft returns (or hard returns for some text editors) at the right-side margins of a document. As the full view of the text would show excessively long text strings, word wrapping confines text to the viewable window, allowing text to be edited or read from top to bottom without any left-to-right scrolling.
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<text> A feature of word processors and most text editors where a word which would extend past the right hand margin is moved to the following line. This is more sophisticated than character wrap which only moves to the next line for the first character past the right margin and thus will break some words in the middle. The program may actually insert a new line in the text at the point where it is wrapped or it may only display it as though it contained a new line at that point.
(1996-07-24)