baud rate
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5.0
- noun
- /bɔːd reɪt/
- Specialized
:
tasa de baud
- Changing the baud rate can significantly affect how quickly your device communicates with the computer.
Examples
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I finally set the baud rate slow and managed to program the device; it took a few minutes.
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Change the baud rate at which it reports.
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Also, should I be changing the port settings baud rate on the Windows virtual COM port when programming the chip?
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I am wondering if on PC I am supposed to set the interface speed and COM port baud rate differently.
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Some Bluetooth GPSes with defective firmware will actually go so badly catatonic if you try to change their baud rate that you actually have to crack the case and unsolder the battery to unbrick them!
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The lab used the highest available baud rate for sending files from the test unit to the receiving fax unit.
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You need to adjust the baud rate on your modem to improve data transmission speeds.
Synonyms
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A unit that shows how many times a signal changes each second
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'baud' denotes signal changes per second and 'rate' denotes a measured speed, so 'baud rate' straightforwardly means the speed/number of signal units transmitted per second. This is a technical but non-idiomatic noun phrase, so a B1 learner who already knows both constituent definitions would be able to understand it.
Etymology
Baud rate was named after an old telegraph inventor, Émile Baudot, but it is easiest to imagine it as the number of signal 'ticks' per second. The word baud refers to those signal changes and rate means speed, so baud rate tells how fast signals and data are sent today.