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real time

The definition of real time is something happening now or something that is being broadcast over the exact number of minutes, seconds or hours the event is taking.

(adjective)

An example of real time is when journalists show live footage from an accident scene.

See real time in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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time in which the occurrence of an event and the reporting or recording of it are almost simultaneous

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adjective

of or pertaining to a mode of computer operation in which the computer collects data, computes with it, and uses the results to control a process as it happens

See real time in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The actual time in which a physical process under computer study or control occurs.
The time required for a computer to solve a problem, measured from the time data are fed in to the time a solution is received.

adjective

Of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate as they receive data, enabling them to direct or control a process such as an automatic pilot.

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