real-time

See also: realtime and real time

English

Alternative forms

• realtime

Etymology

From real time.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːəltaɪm/, /ˈɹiːltaɪm/
• Hyphenation: real-time

Adjective

real-time (not comparable)

1. Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay.

   Coordinate terms: instantaneous, synchronous

   • 2001, Automotive Engineering International:

     It will provide a wireless navigation service that can deliver turn-by-turn route guidance and real-time traffic and weather information. Motorola is the first company to create such a solution, […]

   • 2004, William J. Mann, Gay Pride: A Celebration Of All Things Gay And Lesbian, Citadel Press, →ISBN:

     Audiences tolerate the idea of Roxy Hart turning from a “real-time” conversation with her husband or lawyer and launching into a song about her dreams and ambitions. And in the old days, movie audiences did the same: Judy Garland could ...

   • 2013, Michael Herman, Intelligence Services in the Information Age, Routledge, →ISBN:

     This may nevertheless require some re-drawing of boundaries, to integrate real- time or near-real-time intelligence collection with the other means of locating, identifying and tracking major military equipment and units.

   • 2014, John Sandford, Deadline: A Virgil Flowers Novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 167:

     If not real-time, in-person backup, he at least needed to tell Davenport what was going on, and where he was headed.

   • 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48:

     All signage in and around the station is bilingual in Welsh and English, while station announcements and passenger information screens provide real-time information.

2. (computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous.
   • 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:

     The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]

Synonyms

• RT

Derived terms

• hard real-time
• immediate real-time
• near real-time
• real-time attack
• realtimely
• real-time strategy
• soft real-time

 

Related terms

• real time

Translations

computer term

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實時／实时 (zh) (shíshí)

• Finnish: reaaliaikainen (fi)
• French: en temps réel (fr)
• Georgian: რეალურ დროში (realur droši)
• German: in Echtzeit (de)
• Hungarian: valós idejű (hu)
• Indonesian: waktu nyata
• Irish: fíor-ama
• Italian: in tempo reale
• Japanese: リアルタイムの (ja) (riarutaimu no), 実時間の (じつじかんの, jitsujikan no)
• Malay: masa nyata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sanntids-

• Polish: w czasie rzeczywistym
• Portuguese: em tempo real
• Romanian: în timp real m or f
• Russian: (производи́мый) в реа́льном вре́мени (v reálʹnom vrémeni), постоянный (ru) (postojannyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: u stvarnom vremenu
• Slovene: v realnem času, sproten
• Spanish: en tiempo real
• Swedish: realtids-
• Turkish: gerçek zamanlı (tr), eş zamanlı (tr)
• Vietnamese: tức thời (vi), thời gian thực

References

• “real-time”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• matériel, Lemaitre, materiel, eremital