baud

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔːd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Noun

baud (countable and uncountable; plural bauds) (sometimes seen capitalized)

1. (computing, telecommunications) A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission.
2. (computing, informal) Synonym for bps (bits per second), regardless of how many signalling events are necessary to signal each bit.

Derived terms

• gigabaud
• kilobaud
• megabaud

Translations

A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second

• Arabic: باود (ar) (bawd) m
• Belarusian: бод (be) (bod) m
• Bulgarian: бод (bg) (bod) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波特 (cmn) (bōtè)

• Finnish: baudi (fi)
• French: baud (fr) m
• German: Baud (de) m
• Hebrew: באוד (he)
• Hindi: बॉड (hi) (boḍ)

• Icelandic: bot (is) n, baud (is) n, (bits per second) bitar á sekúndu (is) m pl
• Japanese: ボー (ja) (bō)
• Korean: 보오 (ko) (boo)
• Macedonian: бод (mk) (bod) m
• Polish: bod m
• Russian: бод (ru) (bod) m
• Serbo-Croatian: бод (sh) m, bod (sh) m
• Thai: บอด (th) (bòt)
• Ukrainian: бод (uk) (bod) m

Anagrams

• daub

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin vōx, vocem, possibly influenced by vōtum.

Noun

baud f

1. voice

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Gothic

Romanization

baud

1. See 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌳

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Scots

Adjective

baud (comparative mair baud, superlative maist baud)

1. bad