Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BAUD
baud, baud rate
(noun) (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)
(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
(computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.
Anagrams
• Buda, Daub, abud, daub
Source: Wiktionary
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