padding
suomi-englanti sanakirjapadding englannista suomeksi
täyte, pehmike
padding englanniksi
(infl of)
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
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).''
Anything of little value used to fill up space.
(ux)
(quote-book)|publisher=Pan Books|location=London|year_published=1954|page=135|passage=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.
Robbing on a highway.