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Cushioning vs Padding - What's the difference?

cushioning | padding | Related terms |

Cushioning is a related term of padding.


As verbs the difference between cushioning and padding

is that cushioning is while padding is .

As a noun padding is

soft filling material used in cushions etc.

cushioning

English

Verb

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  • padding

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (wikipedia padding) (en noun)
  • Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  • (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  • (military) 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). .
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