meaning of data rate

1. data rate unit> Or "data ransfer rate", "transmission rate" The amount of data transferred per second by a communications channel or a computing or storage device. Data rate is measured in units of bits per second written "b/s" or "bps", bytes per second Bps, or baud. When applied to data rate, the multiplier prefixes "kilo-", "mega-", "giga-", etc. and their abbreviations, "k", "M", "G", etc. always denote powers of 1000. For example, 64 kbps is 64,000 bits per second. This contrasts with units of storage where they stand for powers of 1024, e. g. 1 KB = 1024 bytes. [Relationship with 2.">"bandwidth"?]
2. the rate at which circuits or other devices operate when handling digital information

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