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baud rate

n. (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems [syn: baud]

Usage examples of "baud rate".

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.

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.