different between jadding vs padding

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jadding (uncountable)

padding

padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
(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.
That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.

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