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REAL-TIME
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Pertainym:
real time ((computer science) the time it takes for a process under computer control to occur)
Context examples:
They extracted ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequences from each sample and converted them into stable complementary DNA (cDNA), which was processed using a technique called real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which amplifies the signal of genes activated by the multiplication of cDNA molecules.
(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)
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