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REAL TIME
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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)
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.
(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
