Etymology

baud

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Today it means: A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. Full definition →

French baud
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  1. French · borrowed frombaud
  2. English todaybaud

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

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