baud
nounUK /bɔːd/ · US /bɔd/
Etymology Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).
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Communications, Computing, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Telecommunications A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.