Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or lengthJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006)
(1) Loose sheets stacked, with or without a backing material, to which adhesive is applied, usually with a brush, to the binding edge The adhesive must be flexible and capable of allowing easy removal of a single sheet (2) Corrugated material used as filler material in bulk cartons or individual mailing cartons to top
The internet header Padding field is used to ensure that the data begins on 32 bit word boundary The padding is zero
The process of adding metal to a cross section of a casting wall, usually extending from a riser, to ensure adequate feed to a localized area where a shrink would occur if the added metal were not present
This happens when a file that is being transferred ends in the middle of a block of data The communications program must add blank data to fill up the block Some term programs will "strip" this before saving the file to disk
the impregnation of a substrate with a liquor or paste followed by squeezing-usually by passing the substrate through a nip-to leave a specific quantity of liquor or paste on the substrate
Empty space that is appended to individual packets in a content stream to keep packet size constant Windows Media Services supports variable packet length However, Windows Media Encoder limits packets to a fixed length to ensure compatibility with earlier versions of Windows Media Services
Padding is unnecessary words or information used to make a piece of writing or a speech longer. the kind of subject that politicians put in their speeches for a bit of padding
Extra characters such as ASCII 32 spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length
The practice of underestimating budgeted revenues (or overestimating budgeted costs) in order to make budgeted targets more easily achievable Also called budgetary slack
Padding is redundant memory(2) within the memory allocated to an object It is usually inserted because of alignment restrictions on the fields of the object or on the object itself Padding is a form of internal fragmentation
adding an adhesive compound to the edge of sheets to form a note pad (can be used for bookbinding or tear-off sheets)