padding

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of pad

noun

  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.
  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.

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