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bit rate

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There’s still some compression being applied; CD-quality music typically has a sample bit rate of 1.4Mbps.

From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2021

It’s a reminder that everything in the chain — from how music was mastered and encoded to the earbud hardware itself — matters just as much as sheer bit rate.

From The Verge • Jun. 8, 2021

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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