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Webster 1913 Edition
Padding
Pad′ding
,Noun.
 1. 
The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing. 
2. 
The material with which anything is padded. 
3. 
Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. 
London Sat. Rev.
 4. 
(Calico Printing) 
The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant. 
Definition 2025
padding
padding
English
Verb
padding
- present participle of pad
 
Noun
padding (plural paddings)
- Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
 - (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
 - (military) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length[1].
 
Translations
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
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Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length
Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length
References
- ↑ Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).