baud

noun

(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

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

Roots

baudotbaud- · French · named after J. M. E. Baudot

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