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baud

noun
/bɔːd/UK/bɔd/US/bɑd/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from baud

Definitions

  1. A unit of data transmission symbol rate

    A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

    • To reach the Backroom Bulletin Board, call (718) 849-6699 with a computer, using either the 300 or 1200 baud setting on the modem.

  2. bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baud. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA