padding

• IPA^(key): /ˈpædɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ædɪŋ
• Homophone: patting (General American)

padding

1. present participle and gerund of pad

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.
6. The process of mordanting a fabric.

paddíng

1. wall