real time
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈriːəl taɪm/
- Specialized
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tiempo real
- We can track the stock market trends in real time without delay.
- data in real time
- display in real time
- see data in real time
These tools help us in real time life or death situations.
- These tools help us in real time life or death situations.
- They're all, they're all happening in real time in the same system, your body.
- And then you can use those to actually in real time, change your metrics.
- So in real time they're seeing the offers.
- So now you can see in real time what's true and what's not.
- So he's describing the chord progression in real time in the lyrics.
- Answer on the spot, in demand, real time, clean data, real.
- Well, I am spiraling in real time as I am on testosterone.
- Picture in real time, yeah, real time like drone feed looks like right.
Examples
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Thus, the NRO can collect its photographic information in real time, just seconds after the pictures are taken.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's listening and responding in real time, just like a human.
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And you can do this in real time on video.
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To have that in real time is wonderful.
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So here it is in real time, pretty quick.
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These tools help us in real time life or death situations.
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The system tracks reported crime in real time.
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We're going to find out in real time if this joke pays off.
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All these functions are performed in real time, at 30 frames a second.
Academic text (1992) -
Yet today they are in real-time communication with their families and friends in different countries.
Academic text (2017)
Antonyms
How Immediate
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'the actual time when something happens' is directly compositional from 'real' (actual) + 'time' (moment/period), so a learner who knows both words can infer the meaning. This construction is common and cross-linguistically paralleled (e.g. Spanish 'tiempo real', French 'temps réel'), supporting immediate comprehension at B1.
Etymology
Real time, literally real time, comes from the image of watching something as it happens, like watching a clock during a live event. That's why it means 'the actual time when something happens' and why information is updated immediately.