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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Computers bits per second

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  • initialism computing bits per second, a measure of speed of digital communication.
  • initialism computing, informal baud rate

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  • noun (computer science) the rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem)

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