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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
real-time
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
operating
▪ Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 will be implemented on the embedded architecture along with real-time operating systems.
unix
▪ Cray licensed the Real/IX real-time Unix from ModComp for the effort.
▪ On top of this Ready Systems can add different layers for different implementations, the most powerful of which is a real-time Unix offering.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Advances in microscopy may soon allow the real-time visualization of any such changes.
▪ But these real-time happenings are held at a curious distance-we only witness them through Cleave's digressive prose.
▪ Jerusalem's wish-list includes nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles, real-time satellite intelligence and funding for missile defence.
▪ No introduction, training, or assistance in practicing new skills and behaviors in the real-time pursuit of performance.
▪ Performance Technologies was showing off a new system last week targeted at OEMs and integrators active in the real-time and embedded markets.
▪ The process is one of real-time digitisation.
▪ The system provides operators with detailed real-time analysis of the status of all of their fleets.
▪ Unfortunately Dash did not make real-time observations about my character.
Wiktionary
real-time

a. (context computing English) (alternative form of realtime English)

WordNet
real-time

adj. of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information

Wikipedia
Real-time

Real-time or real time may refer to:

Usage examples of "real-time".

It is Ashura, the tenth day of Muhurram, according to a real-time clock still tuned to the pace of a different era: the one thousand, three hundred and fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the third Imam, the Sayyid ash-Shuhada.

It is Ashura, the tenth day of Muhurram, according to a real-time clock still tuned to the pace of a different era: the one thousand, three hundred and fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the Third Imam, the Sayyid ash-Shuhada.

This space, intended to contain a few comfortable lounge chairs and perhaps a wet bar, was stuffed with meteorological equipment: dropsonde console, anemometer, barometer, gradient thermometer, three separate radar screens, and real-time satellite monitoring gear.

In fact, at SRI we had the impression that our precognitive experiments tended to be more reliable that the real-time trials.

The latter instruction is often helpful because it invites the viewer to make use of the ever-present precognitive channel, in addition to the real-time clairvoyance of the present.

Neither of them even tried to tune into the real-time Voicecasts of the ferocious Conclave session they knew was raging in Tajvana.

In January, CMGI-owned Yesmail was awarded a temporary restraining order against MAPS - Mail Abuse Prevention System - forbidding it to place the reputable e-mail marketer on its Real-time Blackhole list.

In the last slowed seconds before real-time resumes, I remember that if the actual fighting goes the way of the old poem, Aphrodite herself will be injured by Diomedes in the coming hour.

The Mrachanis were not to know that the Elders were relaying a real-time account of this conversation to Warrior Command.

FTL grav-pulse transmitters fed his targeting computers with real-time data, and their radar and lidar was getting far better hits off of their targets than they should have done against jammers that capable.

We were lured in close to Kaden by a request for real-time communications from the Kaden Military Council.

Heechee to communicate with Sluggards as it is for us stored persons to get into any meaningful real-time relationship with meat people.

She was sitting on an unspaceworthy ship at a space station orbiting a world at war, and one side or the other had just demonstrated the ability to mount an attack in space, at the same time neatly cutting off this system from real-time communication with the rest of the universe.

It was not real-time eavesdropping from Lourdusamy's bugproof rooms -- a fact that still worried Cardinal Mustafa -- but it was as close to it as current technology and stealth could get.

It transmits scans of received mail and real-time views so that I can direct the capuchins … to mail the right letter in the right envelope, for example.