baud
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
baud /bɔːd/
▶noun (pl. same or bauds) Computing a unit of transmission speed for electronic signals, corresponding to one information unit or event per second.
– origin 1930s: Fr., from the name of the French engineer Jean M. E. Baudot.
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