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padding

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padding

  1. present participle and gerund of pad

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padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

  1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  2. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  3. (military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.[1]
  4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.
    That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
  5. (obsolete) Robbing on a highway.
  6. The process of mordanting a fabric.

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extraneous text added to a message

References edit

  1. ^ Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).

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paddíng

  1. wall
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