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Real time   /ril taɪm/   Listen
Real time

noun
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.





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"Real time" Quotes from Famous Books



... these important matters may be briefly told in narrative, like a newspaper report of a Chancery suit, yet, with all the urgency which Waverley could use, the real time which the law proceedings occupied, joined to the delay occasioned by the mode of travelling at that period, rendered it considerably more than two months ere Waverley, having left England, alighted once more at the mansion of the ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... the next; I don't believe he ever kept the same look for half-an-hour together in the whole course of his life; and such an eternal, restless, fatiguing play of the muscles must certainly wear out a man's face before its real time.' Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 64. Malone fathers this witticism on ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... on the Enipeus, near Larissa, the 9th of August, old style, or toward the end of May by real time, Caesar had broken up his camp and was preparing for his usual leisurely march, when he perceived a movement in Pompey's lines which told him that the moment which he had so long expected was come. Labienus, the evil genius of the Senate, who had tempted them into the war by ...
— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude


Words linked to "Real time" :   computing, computer science, time period, period of time, period


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