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baud

Pronunciation: /bo/

“baud” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a type of hunting dog
  2. baud (unit)

In French

  1. Chien courant pour chasser le cerf.
  2. Unité de mesure de la rapidité de modulation (symbole Bd), correspondant au nombre de symboles transmis par seconde. Le baud a donc les mêmes dimensions que le hertz.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French baud, bald (“joyous, full of ardor”), from Frankish *bald, *balt, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”) (compare English bold, Dutch boud).

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