padding

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

padding

Etymology tree

English pad

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English padding

From pad + -ing.

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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.
- 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 135:
  But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.
The process of mordanting a fabric.
(ABDL) A diaper.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:diaper
(obsolete) Robbing on a highway.

soft filling material

extra characters such as spaces added to a record

extraneous text added to a message

^ Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).

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