baud

Etymology

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

noun

  1. (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
  2. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

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