noun Telecommunications.
- a unit used to measure the speed of signaling or data transfer, equal to the number of pulses or bits per second: baud rate.
noun
- a unit used to measure the speed of electronic code transmissions, equal to one unit interval per second
1932, originally a unit of speed in telegraphy, coined in French in 1929 in honor of French inventor and engineer Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903), who designed a telegraph printing system.