noun
- Plural of kilobaud; units of data transmission speed equal to one thousand bauds.
Usage: technical; computing/telecommunications; largely historical; superseded by kilobits per second (kbps) in modern usage
Examples
- Early modems operated at speeds measured in kilobauds.
- The 1200-kilobaud modem was considered fast in the 1980s.
- Data transmission rates were often expressed in kilobauds before the adoption of bits per second.
- Telecommunications engineers specified modem speeds in kilobauds during that era.