padding

English

Pronunciation

Verb

padding

  1. present participle of pad

Noun

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.

Translations
extraneous text added to a message

References
  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).

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

paddíng

  1. wall
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