Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of data transfer speed equal to one change in a carrier signal per second. Since most data transmission schemes transfer more than one bit of data with each change in the carrier signal, one baud is usually equal to several bits per second.
from The Century Dictionary.
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers, telecommunications) A unit of transmission speed for information conveyed over a digital communications channel, usually taken as equal to the number of bits of information transmitted per second. The speed in bauds indicates the number of signalling events per second; however, since it is necessary in most cases to transmit control information along with the data, the
data signalling rate may be smaller than the baud rate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun computing, telecommunications A
rate defined as the number ofsignalling events per second in a datatransmission . - noun computing, informal Synonym for
bps (bits per second), regardless of how many signalling events are necessary to signal eachbit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mutt Lange has commented to People magazine that his relationship with Marie Ann Thiébaud is absolutely not the reason [for the separation].
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The policy of their chiefs has on this occasion been admired, and might surely be excused; but a pious baud is seldom produced by the cool conspiracy of many persons; and a voluntary impostor might depend on the support of the wise and the credulity of the people.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Looks like Shania Twain and Robert “Mutt” Lange can’t keep their divorce private for long — only days after announcing their split comes news that Mutt Lange’s affair with Marie Ann Thiébaud is to blame.
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Squeezing two bits into a baud was a pretty remarkable thing at the time.
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For example your 9600 bps modem was operating at 2400 baud, which is pretty much the upper limit for a telephone line.
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For example your 9600 bps modem was operating at 2400 baud, which is pretty much the upper limit for a telephone line.
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Squeezing two bits into a baud was a pretty remarkable thing at the time.
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These speeds are selectable in hardware by appropriate wiring of a chip called a baud-rate generator.
At King Lyndon's Court Kempton, Murray 1969
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(The baud is the measure of speed of data transmission: specifically, it refers to the number of signal level changes per second and is thus not the same as bits-per-second.)
At King Lyndon's Court Kempton, Murray 1969
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From analog modems (remember baud rates?) to DSL to Cable to FIOS, people routinely (and happily) pay a premium for bandwidth, but they absolutely hate to pay for content.
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