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baud definition - telecom
A signal event, signal change, or signal transition, such as a change from positive voltage to zero voltage, from zero voltage to negative voltage, or from positive voltage to negative voltage. The baud is named for Emile Baudot, inventor of the teletype. See also Baudot code and baud rate.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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