REAL TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does real time mean? 

• REAL TIME (noun)
  The noun REAL TIME has 2 senses:

1. the actual time that it takes a process to occur

2. (computer science) the time it takes for a process under computer control to occur

  Familiarity information: REAL TIME used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAL TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The actual time that it takes a process to occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

information is updated in real time

Hypernyms ("real time" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

Traumatic head injury can have widespread effects in the brain, but now scientists can look in real time at how head injury affects thousands of individual cells and genes simultaneously in mice.

(Every cell has a story to tell in brain injury, National Institutes of Health)

The visualization of physiological, cellular or molecular processes in living tissue in real time as they take place in cells, for example, blood flow, oxygen consumption or glucose metabolism.

(Functional Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

The ability to process solar data in real time is important because flares erupting on the sun affect Earth over the course of minutes.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

Due to the expected location, engineers will be unable to view in real time the exact location of impact.

(NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury, NASA)

The group used an advanced imaging approach to observe fluorescently tagged MTs inside beating mouse and rat heart cells in real time.

(Microtubules’ role in heart cell contraction revealed, NIH)

Ecosystem responses to such a substantial addition of nutrients are rarely observed or sampled in real time.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

That allows us to integrate electronics on flexible substrates, like clothing, shoes, and wrist bands for real time monitoring of biomedical diagnostics and athletic performance.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine used high-powered microscopy and rheometry — the measurement of how materials become deformed in response to applied force — to view that process in real time and at the cellular level.

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

The researchers found evidence of prion infection throughout the eyes of all 11 deceased patients using real time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC), a highly sensitive test that detects prion seeding activity in a sample as evidence of infection.

(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)

Using real time imaging, Dorian McGavern, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), scientist and his colleagues took a detailed look at mouse meningeal macrophages, which are immune cells that live in the meninges, the protective layers covering the brain and spinal cord.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)