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bathtub curve n.

Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of

those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected

failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to

near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it

`tires out'. See also [1161]burn-in period, [1162]infant mortality.

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baud /bawd/ n.

[simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per second. Hence

kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning

is `level transitions per second'; this coincides with bps only for

two-level modulation with no framing or stop bits. Most hackers are

aware of these nuances but blithely ignore them.

Historical note: `baud' was originally a unit of telegraph signalling

speed, set at one pulse per second. It was proposed at the November,

1926 conference of the Comité Consultatif International Des

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