Plural of baud; units of measurement for data transmission speed in telecommunications.
Named after Émile Baudot, a 19th-century French inventor of telegraph machinery. The term became standard in telecommunications engineering to measure bits per second.
The baud is named after a person rather than a physical thing, which is rare in science—most units honor dead scientists, but 'baud' immortalizes Baudot's telegraph work by making his name synonymous with communication speed itself.
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