padding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpædɪŋ/
• Homophone: patting

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.

Translations

soft filling material

• Dutch: vulling (nl)
• Finnish: pehmuste (fi), pehmike (fi)
• French: rembourrage (fr) m
• Hebrew: ריפוד (he) m
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• Italian: imbottitura (it) f
• Maori: whakapuru
• Portuguese: acolchoamento m

extra characters such as spaces added to a record

• Finnish: täyte (fi)
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extraneous text added to a message

• Finnish: täyte (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Dupaningan Agta

Noun

paddíng

1. wall