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Dial-up unit
Answer for the clue "Dial-up unit ", 4 letters:
baud
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems [syn: baud rate ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
baud \baud\ (b[add]d or b[^o]d), n. [Named after J. M. E. Baudot, a French inventor, died 1903.] (Computers, telecommunications) A unit of transmission speed for information conveyed over a digital communications channel, usually taken as equal to the number ...
Usage examples of baud.
Hank remembered hearing Grandpa tell someone that the modem was of an experimental type, with one fantastic high baud rate, though it looked like nothing more than the standard audio unit that most modems were.
It had a large, primitive locking mechanism that was rusted, as were the iron bauds that cut across the discolored wood.
At its baud rate, it bore the work and discoveries of half a planetary day across in less than a minute.
It hasn't got the bandwidth or the baud rate, poor thing, much less the storage capacity.
He whistled something improbably convoluted in modemspeak, at a baud rate I couldn't follow.
Data could not draw information from it at normal speed, but had to wait for it to feed at its own baud rate.