REAL TIME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) the time it takes for a process under computer control to occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("real time" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The actual time that it takes a process to occur

Example:

information is updated in real time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("real time" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

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Context examples:

As the tears come into contact with the glucose oxidase, it alters the flow of electrons, producing a signal that is recorded and processed by the device installed in the arm of the eyeglasses, which sends the results in real time to a computer or smartphone.

(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time — including, for the first time, the pose of each individual's fingers.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers have used high-powered microscopy and rheometry — the measurement of how materials become deformed in response to applied force — to view the blood clotting process in real time and at the cellular level.