padding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpædɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ædɪŋ
- Homophone: patting (General American)
Verb
padding
- present participle of pad
Noun
padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)
- Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
- (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
- (military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length[1].
- Anything of little value used to fill up space.
- That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
- (obsolete) Robbing on a highway.
Translations
soft filling material
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extra characters such as spaces added to a record
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extraneous text added to a message
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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).
Dupaningan Agta
Noun
paddíng
- wall