padding

  1. Verb.  (present participle of, pad) .
  2. Noun.  Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  3. Noun.  (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  4. Noun.  (military) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length'''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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