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padding

  • noun
  • /ˈpædɪŋ/

Soft filling material used in cushions etc.

Other meanings

  1. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

  2. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).

Kinds of padding

  • cushion
  • pad

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “padding” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.