noun
- Plural of baud; a unit of data transmission speed equal to one signal change per second.
Usage: technical; computing
Examples
- The old modem operated at 56 kilobauds.
- Early internet connections were measured in bauds rather than megabits per second.
- The serial port supported transmission speeds of up to 9,600 bauds.
- Modern broadband speeds far exceed the bauds of dial-up modems from the 1990s.