padding

1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc. (countable, uncountable)
2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length. (countable, uncountable)
3. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length. (countable, uncountable)
4. Anything of little value used to fill up space. (countable, uncountable) · That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
5. The process of mordanting a fabric. (countable, uncountable)
6. A diaper. (countable, uncountable)

Plural paddings