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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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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