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bit rate

British

noun

computing the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second

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Sony is also beating Apple at bringing higher bit rate wireless audio to earbuds.

From The Verge • Jun. 8, 2021

Mastered for iTunes was never about bit rate or high-resolution audio; Apple has continued to stick with the lossy AAC format as streaming competitors like Tidal have put an emphasis on lossless audio.

From The Verge • Aug. 7, 2019

But the bit rate of the Chinese experiment was too low for practical communications: the researchers detected only one entangled pair out of six million.

From Scientific American • May 25, 2018

For this set, the original recordings have been compressed at a bit rate of 320 kbps.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013

He and Lazaridis joke that their engineers "talk the same bit rate."

From Forbes • Feb. 9, 2011

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