Definition of "padding"

present participle and gerund of pad  examples

Soft filling material used in cushions etc.  examples

(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.  examples

(military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.

Anything of little value used to fill up space.  examples

(obsolete) Robbing on a highway.

The process of mordanting a fabric.  examples