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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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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

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

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

Unfortunately, Apple has not released any information about the bit rate of their streaming audio.

From Forbes ● Sep. 24, 2013

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013

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