baud

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

baud, n. [Named after J. M. E. Baudot, a French inventor, died 1903.].

 A unit of transmission speed for information conveyed over a digital communications channel, usually taken as equal to the number of bits of information transmitted per second. The speed in bauds indicates the number of signalling events per second; however, since it is necessary in most cases to transmit control information along with the data, the data signalling rate may be smaller than the baud rate.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

baud, n. (pl. same or bauds) Computing etc. 1 a unit used to express the speed of electronic code signals, corresponding to one information unit per second.
2 (loosely) a unit of data-transmission speed of one bit per second.

Etymology

J. M. E. Baudot, Fr. engineer d. 1903