plural baud also bauds
: a variable unit of data transmission speed (such as one bit per second)
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My first modem was 300 baud and was painfully slow.
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Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
Whatever the baud rate may be, his Bruins lead the league in goal scoring (38) and goal differential (+17).
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
In those days, it was largely limited to 300 baud, though 1200-baud service was becoming increasingly available on many TAC ports.
—Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
The bike’s computer had only 300 or 1200 baud dial up and 32K of memory.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2016
Patterson and Lord then recorded their band’s music in MP2 format, translated the file into an ASCII test file, broke that into 26 separate pieces and spent about an hour uploading the pieces of music to the Internet using a 14.4 baud modem.
—Brad King, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2001
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Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
Whatever the baud rate may be, his Bruins lead the league in goal scoring (38) and goal differential (+17).
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
In those days, it was largely limited to 300 baud, though 1200-baud service was becoming increasingly available on many TAC ports.
—Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
The bike’s computer had only 300 or 1200 baud dial up and 32K of memory.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2016
Patterson and Lord then recorded their band’s music in MP2 format, translated the file into an ASCII test file, broke that into 26 separate pieces and spent about an hour uploading the pieces of music to the Internet using a 14.4 baud modem.
—Brad King, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2001
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“Baud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baud. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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baud
noun
ˈbȯd 
ˈbōd
: a unit of speed (as one bit per second) at which data is sent in communications
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