Padding meaning
Something added, especially extraneously or fraudulently.
Put some padding in the résumé.
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A soft material used to make pads or a pad.
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The act of stuffing, filling, or lining.
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A soft material used to make pads or a pad.
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Something added, especially extraneously or fraudulently.
Put some padding in the résumé.
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The action of a person who pads.
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Any soft material, as cotton, felt, etc., used to pad.
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Unnecessary or irrelevant material put into a speech or piece of writing, making it longer.
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Bits or characters that fill up unused portions of a data structure, such as a field, packet or frame. Typically, padding is done at the end of the structure to fill it up with data, with the padding usually consisting of 1 bits, blank characters or null characters. See null and bit stuffing.
In storage, irrelevant material, usually zero (0) bits, added to a data block in order to fill it to a minimum size, to force certain fields of control data or user data into certain positions or sizes, or to prevent the user data from duplicating a bit pattern that has a specific control meaning. See also block.
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In transmission, irrelevant material added to a data block, packet, or frame in order to fill it to a minimum size, to force certain fields of control data or user data into certain positions or sizes, or to prevent the user data from duplicating a bit pattern that has a specific control meaning. See also block, frame, and packet.
In transmission, redundant, irrelevant bits, usually one (1) bits, appended to a bit stream in order to increase the bit rate or to maintain a session or connection during periods of inactivity. See also keep alive bits.
In some synchronous protocols, such as binary synchronous communications (Bisync, or BSC), one or more optional characters that alert the receiving device of the transmission of a block of data and ensure that the receiving device is in sync with the data bits. See also BSC, protocol, and synchronous.
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
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(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
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(military) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
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The act of stuffing, filling, or lining.
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