Real-time
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Real-time or real time may refer to:
Computing
- Real-time computing, subject to a real-time constraint
- Real-time clock, a computer clock that keeps track of the current time
- Real-time Control System, subject to a real-time constraint
- Real-time Programming Language, a compiled database programming language which expresses work to be done by a particular time
Applications of real-time computing
- Real-time computer graphics
- Real-time camera system, for controlling cameras in a 3D virtual environment
- Real-time operating system, for running real-time software
- Real-time protection, protection enabled constantly, rather than by, say, a virus scan
- Real-time text, transmitted as it is being typed or produced
- Real time Java, for real-time programs in Java
- Real-time disk encryption, encrypting data as it is written to disk
- Real-time web, whereby information is sent to users as it becomes available
- Live streaming, continuously delivering multimedia in real time
- Collaborative real-time editor, simultaneous editing of a document by several users
- Real-time simulation, simulation able to run at the same rate as reality
- Real-time Blackhole List, a DNS blacklist
- Real-time Cmix, a music programming language
- Real Time AudioSuite, an audio plug-in for Pro Tools
Other science and technology
- Real-time locating system, for real-time tracking
- Real-time gross settlement, an online system for settling financial transactions
- Real-time kinematic, a satellite navigation technique
- Real-time polymerase chain reaction, providing quantitative results during the process
Arts and entertainment
Film, television and radio
- Real time (media), where a depiction of events takes the same times as the events, without compression
- "Fox Real Time", a headline update segment on the Fox News Live television program
- Real Time (Doctor Who), a webcast
- Real Time (film), a 2008 film
- Real Time with Bill Maher, a talk show on HBO
- RealTime (radio show), a radio show on CBC 2
- Realtime China, a 30-minute daily news program about China from China Radio International
- Real Time (Italy), an Italian television channel
Video gaming
- Real-time game, with continuous play rather than by turn
- Real-time strategy, a computer game genre of strategic war games
- Real-time tactics, a computer game genre of tactical war games
Game companies
- Realtime Associates, an American video game developer
- Realtime Games Software, a defunct British video game developer
- Realtime Gaming, a company that develops gambling software
- Realtime Worlds, a Scottish game developer
Literature
- Realtime Interrupt, a 1995 novel
- Real Time, a 2004 novel by Pnina Moed Kass translated from the German Echtzeit
- Simulated Real Time, an art and literature project
Music
- Real Time (The Jazztet album), 1986, by the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet
- Real Time (Steam album), 1996
- Real Time (Van der Graaf Generator album), 2007
- Realtime (C:Real album), 1997
- Realtime (Shapeshifter album), 2001
- Realtime (quartet), a barbershop quartet
Other uses
- Real-time data, information that is delivered as it happens
- Real-time business intelligence, delivered as it happens without delay
- Real-time sociolinguistics, method in which data is collected over time
- Real-time transcription, transcription of words as they are spoken
See also
- On the fly
- Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), for streaming audio and video
- RTP Control Protocol or Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), for controlling an RTP flow
- Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), used by Flash for streaming audio and video
- Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) for streaming media servers