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real time
1[ ree-uhl, reel ]
noun
- Computers. the actual time elapsed in the performance of a computation by a computer, the result of the computation being required for the continuation of a physical process.
- the actual time during which a process takes place or an event occurs.
real-time
2[ ree-uhl-tahym, reel- ]
adjective
- of or relating to applications in which the computer must respond as rapidly as required by the user or necessitated by the process being controlled.
real-time
adjective
- denoting or relating to a data-processing system in which a computer receives constantly changing data, such as information relating to air-traffic control, travel booking systems, etc, and processes it sufficiently rapidly to be able to control the source of the data
real-time
- A term used to describe computer systems that update information at the same rate as they receive data.
Word History and Origins
Origin of real time1
Idioms and Phrases
- in real time, Informal. at once; instantaneously.
Example Sentences
At best this sounds like the future of the world economy and all our livelihoods played out like a real time Hilary Mantel novel about the court of Trump.
I suppose you can’t see, what there isn’t time for, is to show him contending in real time with it.
Times reporter, as the story played out in real time.
That sense of realism comes from the show’s structure — 15 episodes that each depict an hour of an emergency room shift in real time.
"It seems like they're actually updating the lists more in real time, as more information appears," says Professor Mike Spagat of Royal Holloway College, chair of Every Casualty Counts, an independent civilian casualty monitoring organisation.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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