Real-time (disambiguation)
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Real-time, real time, or realtime may refer to:
- Real time (media), a narrative technique in which the events depicted take place entirely within the span of the depiction, and at the same rate
- Real-time communications, communications media that enable publication in real-time (e.g. social media, live television, live radio)
- Real-time Control SystemReal-time Control SystemReal-time Control System is a reference model architecture, suitable for many software-intensive, real-time control problem domains. RCS is a reference model architecture that defines the types of functions that are required in a real-time intelligent control system, and how these functions are...
, the study of control systems that are subject to a real-time constraint - Real-time computingReal-time computingIn computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints...
, the study of computer systems which are subject to a real-time constraint
Film, television and radio
- "Fox Real Time", a headline update segment on the Fox News LiveFox News LiveFox News Live was an American news/talk television program, the hard-news daytime programming of the Fox News Channel. In addition, it also referred to the short headline segments of nearly every hour daily.-About:...
television program - Real Time (Doctor Who), a webcast
- Real Time (film)Real Time (film)Real Time is a 2008 comedy drama which premiered on 18 January 2008 at the Slamdance Film Festival.-Synopsis:The film is about a hit man who gives a compulsive gambler one hour to live. The movie takes place in real time and its ultimate subject is what we do with the time we have in this world...
, a 2008 film - Real Time with Bill MaherReal Time with Bill MaherReal Time with Bill Maher is a talk show that airs weekly on HBO, hosted by comedian and political satirist Bill Maher. Much like his previous show, Politically Incorrect on ABC , Real Time features a panel of guests that discuss current events in politics and the media...
, a talk show on HBO - Realtime (radio show)Realtime (radio show)Realtime was a Canadian radio show, which aired Saturday evenings on CBC Stereo from 1994 to 1997.Hosted by Leora Kornfeld, the series was a pop culture magazine and interview show which was billed as the first live radio program in the world to integrate Internet technologies such as e-mail and...
, a radio show on CBC 2 - Realtime ChinaRealtime ChinaRealtime China is a 30 minute daily news program about China from China Radio International. The topics are about life in China in the English language...
, a 30 minute daily news program about China from China Radio International - Real Time (Italy)Real Time (Italy)Real Time is an Italian television channel owned by Discovery Networks Europe.The channel launched on October 1, 2005, becoming the sixth Discovery network to launch in Italy. It showed lifestyle programmes targeting a female high-class audience of 25-44 year olds...
, an Italian television channel
Music
- Real Time (Van der Graaf Generator album)Real Time (Van der Graaf Generator album)Real Time is a live album by Van der Graaf Generator, released in 2007 on Fie! Records . It contains the entire recording of the group's reunion concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England on 6 May 2005...
, a live album by Van der Graaf Generator, released in 2007 on Fie! Records (the label owned by the group's singer and principal songwriter Peter Hammill) - Realtime (album), released in 2001 by Shapeshifter
- Realtime (C:Real album)Realtime (C:Real album)Realtime is the name of the debut album of the Greek musical group C:Real. The album was released on the Dance Pool label, a subsidiary of Sony Music, and released in 1997 in Greece and Cyrpus by Sony Music Greece...
, the name of the debut album of the Greek musical group C:Real - Realtime (quartet)Realtime (quartet)Realtime is a barbershop quartet that won the Barbershop Harmony Society's International Quartet Championship in 2005. They finished seventh-place the previous year . Lead singer John Newell is the first Australian-born international champion...
, a barbershop quartet
Literature
- Realtime InterruptRealtime InterruptRealtime Interrupt is a 1995 science fiction novel by James P. Hogan set in a near-future Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.It tells the story of Joe Corrigan, who awakens in a Pittsburgh hospital without memory...
, a 1995 science fiction novel by James P. Hogan, set in a near-future Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Video gaming
- Real-time game, a type of game where play happens continuously instead of in turns
- Real-time strategyReal-time strategyReal-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....
, a computer game genre of strategic war games - Real-time tacticsReal-time tacticsReal-time tactics or RTT is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics...
, a computer game genre of tactical war games
- Real-time strategy
- Realtime AssociatesRealtime AssociatesRealtime Associates is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in 1986 by David Warhol and a group of ex Mattel Electronics employees originally to create games for the Intellivision system...
, an American video game developer - Realtime Games SoftwareRealtime Games SoftwareRealtime Games Software Ltd. is a defunct British video game developer. It was founded in 1984 by three Leeds University students, Ian Oliver, Andrew Onions and Graeme Baird....
, a former British video game developer - Realtime WorldsRealtime WorldsRealtime Worlds Ltd was a video game developer based in Dundee, Scotland from 2002 until its closure in September 2010. Realtime Worlds was the largest independent game developer in Scotland with over 200 employees as well as a small Boulder, Colorado office....
, a BAFTA-winning Scottish game developer
Computing
- Real-time clockReal-time clockA real-time clock is a computer clock that keeps track of the current time. Although the term often refers to the devices in personal computers, servers and embedded systems, RTCs are present in almost any electronic device which needs to keep accurate time.-Terminology:The term is used to avoid...
, an electronic clock that keeps accurate time - Realtime Programming LanguageRealtime Programming LanguageRealtime Programming Language is a compiled database programming language used on CMC/Microdata/McDonnell Douglas REALITY Realtime Programming Language (RPL) is a compiled database programming language used on CMC/Microdata/McDonnell Douglas REALITY Realtime Programming Language (RPL) is a...
, a compiled database programming language used on the Reality platform - Realtime GamingRealtime GamingRealtime Gaming is an online casino company developing download-based casino software, licensed by various operators running their own branded RTG-powered casino sites...
, an online casino company developing download-based casino software, licensed by other operators - Realtime PublishersRealtime PublishersRealtime Publishers is a San Francisco-based content marketing and publishing company focused on supporting the IT industry. RTP publications focus mainly on IT topics, and chapters for each publication are released and posted as they are written...
, a San Francisco-based corporate-sponsored e-publishing company for IT topics
Applications of real-time computing
- Real-time computer graphicsReal-time computer graphicsReal-time computer graphics is the subfield of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time. The term is most often used in reference to interactive 3D computer graphics, typically using a GPU, with video games the most noticeable users...
, the producing and analysis of images in real time- Real-time camera system, a system for controlling cameras in a 3D virtual environment
- Real-time operating systemReal-time operating systemA real-time operating system is an operating system intended to serve real-time application requests.A key characteristic of a RTOS is the level of its consistency concerning the amount of time it takes to accept and complete an application's task; the variability is jitter...
, a multitasking operating system intended for real-time applications - Real-time protectionReal-time protectionReal-time protection, on-access scanning, background guard, resident shield, autoprotect, and other synonyms refer to the automatic protection provided by most antivirus, antispyware, and other antimalware programs, which is arguably their most important feature...
, automatic protection provided by computer security systems (anti-virus) - Real-time textReal-time textReal-time text is streaming text that is continuously transmitted as it is typed or otherwise composed. It allows conversational use of text, where people interactively converse with each other.-Use over instant messaging:...
, streaming text that is continuously transmitted as it is produced - Real time JavaReal time JavaReal time Java is a catch-all term for a combination of technologies that allows programmers to write programs that meet the demands of Real time systems in the Java programming language....
, techniques for developing real time systems in the Java programming language - Real time disk encryption, encrypting data on as its written to disk
- Real-time webReal-time webThe real-time web is a set of technologies and practices that enable users to receive information as soon as it is published by its authors, rather than requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates....
, technologies and practices in which published information is immediately pushed to subscribers - Live streaming, continuously delivering multimedia in real time
- Collaborative real-time editor, simultaneous editing of the same document by more than one person
- Real-time SimulationReal-time SimulationReal-time Simulation refers to a computer model of a physical system that can execute at the same rate as actual "wall clock" time. In other words, the computer model runs at the same rate as the actual physical system...
, simulation able to run at the same rate as reality - Real-time Blackhole List, the first system to use DNS blacklist technology
- Real-time CmixReal-time CmixReal-Time Cmix is one of the MUSIC-N family of computer music programming languages. RTcmix is descended from the MIX program developed by Paul Lansky at Princeton University in 1978 to perform algorithmic composition using digital audio soundfiles on a VMS mainframe computer. After synthesis...
, a music programming language - Real-Time InnovationsReal-Time InnovationsReal Time Innovations, Inc. is a computer networking software company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California specializing in publish/subscribe middleware. The company's major competitors are PrismTech, 29West, and TIBCO Software.- History :...
, an American software company - Real Time AudioSuiteReal Time AudioSuiteReal-Time AudioSuite is a format of audio plug-in developed by Digidesign, currently Avid Technology for their Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered systems, although they can be run on Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools TDM systems. RTAS plug-ins use the processing power of the host computer rather than...
, an audio plug-in for Pro Tools
Network protocols
- Real-time Transport ProtocolReal-time Transport ProtocolThe Real-time Transport Protocol defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used extensively in communication and entertainment systems that involve streaming media, such as telephony, video teleconference applications, television services and...
(RTP), a standardised protocol for streaming audio and video over computer networks- RTP Control Protocol or Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), a sister protocol for controlling an RTP flow
- Real Time Messaging ProtocolReal Time Messaging ProtocolReal Time Messaging Protocol was initially a proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server...
(RTMP), a protocol used by Flash for streaming audio and video - Real Time Streaming ProtocolReal Time Streaming ProtocolThe Real Time Streaming Protocol is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points...
(RTSP), a protocol for controlling streaming media servers
Other technology
- Real-time locating systemReal-time locating systemReal-time locating systems are a type of local positioning system that allow to track and identify the location of objects in real time. Using simple, inexpensive badges or tags attached to the objects, readers receive wireless signals from these tags to determine their locations...
, the determination of a temporary location of a (moving) object in real time, according to definitions given with international standards ISO/IEC 19762-5 and ISO/IEC 24730-1 - Real Time Gross SettlementReal Time Gross SettlementReal time gross settlement systems are funds transfer systems where transfer of money or securities takes place from one bank to another on a "real time" and on "gross" basis. Settlement in "real time" means payment transaction is not subjected to any waiting period. The transactions are settled...
, an online system for settling transactions between financial institutions - Real Time KinematicReal Time KinematicReal Time Kinematic satellite navigation is a technique used in land survey and in hydrographic survey based on the use of carrier phase measurements of the GPS, GLONASS and/or Galileo signals where a single reference station provides the real-time corrections, providing up to centimetre-level...
, a satellite navigation technique - Real-time polymerase chain reactionReal-time polymerase chain reactionIn molecular biology, real-time polymerase chain reaction, also called quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction or kinetic polymerase chain reaction , is a laboratory technique based on the PCR, which is used to amplify and simultaneously quantify a targeted DNA molecule...
, a laboratory technique for amplification of DNA that provides quantitative results during the process
Other uses
- Real-time dataReal-time dataReal-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Real-time data is often used for navigation or tracking....
, information that is delivered immediately after collection - Real-time business intelligence, the process of delivering information about business operations without any latency
- Realtime transcription, transcription of spoken words as they are being spoken
- Real time, a synonym for presentismPresentism (philosophy of time)Saint Augustine proposed that the present is a knife edge between the past and the future and could not contain any extended period of time. This seems evident because, if the present is extended, it must have separate parts - but these must be simultaneous if they are truly part of the present...
in philosophy of time - Real-time, a synonym for the presentPresentPresent is a time that is neither past nor future.Present may also refer to:- Time and timing :* Present tense, the grammatical tense of a verb* Before Present, radiocarbon dates relative to AD 1950* Presenting, a medical term* Presenteeism...
, as events happen