REAL-TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does real-time mean? 

• REAL-TIME (adjective)
  The adjective REAL-TIME has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: REAL-TIME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAL-TIME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

The researchers sought to develop a new way to amplify insulin production while maintaining the important real-time link between the release of insulin and concentration of glucose in the bloodstream.

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It will be able to identify species from imagery and sound and use satellites to send real-time data remotely to researchers.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

The results are providing real-time information, such as vertical wind profiles, to firefighters battling blazes.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

The test is called AD RT-QuIC: Alzheimer’s disease real-time quaking induced conversion.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)

The use of endoscopic ultrasound imaging for real-time guidance to identify and approach lesions for fine-needle aspiration.

(Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration, NCI Thesaurus)

The use of ultrasound imaging for real-time guidance of an endoscope for a biopsy procedure.

(Endoscopic Ultrasound Biopsy, NCI Thesaurus)

The current study is the first to use real-time driving data to quantify the extent to which visual inattention — the amount of time a teen’s eyes shift from the road to various distractions — contributes to the risk of a crash.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)

These codes beneath the asphalt send real-time information to the PMD, indicating the necessary reduction in speed, in accordance with the zone the user is crossing at the time (or triggering motor/engine shutdown in some cases), for example.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

In a new study, scientists from the National Institutes of Health watched in real-time as different immune cells took on carefully timed jobs to fix the damaged lining of the brain, also known as meninges, in mice.

(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)

In India, where an estimated 50,000 people die of snakebite each year, the Big 4 Mapping Project has just completed its first year of real-time mapping to help build a picture of snake activity across the country.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)