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Telegraphic speed measure
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baud
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context computing telecommunications English) A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission. 2 (context computing informal English) Synonym for bps (bits per second), regardless of how many signalling events are ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In telecommunication and electronics , baud (, unit symbol Bd ) is the unit for symbol rate or modulation rate in symbols per second or pulses per second . It is the number of distinct symbol changes (signaling events) made to the transmission medium per ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1932, originally a unit of speed in telegraphy, coined in French in 1929 in honor of French inventor and engineer Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903), who designed a telegraph printing system.
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.