"real-time" meaning in English

See real-time in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈɹiːəltaɪm/, /ˈɹiːltaɪm/
Etymology: From real time. Etymology templates: {{l|en|real time}} real time Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} real-time (not comparable)
  1. Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-real-time-en-adj-qzd5ppoF
  2. (computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-real-time-en-adj-fGbneQWm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: RT, realtime Derived forms: hard real-time, immediate real-time, near real-time, real-time attack, realtimely, real-time strategy, soft real-time Related terms: real time Translations (computer term): 實時 (Chinese Mandarin), 实时 (shíshí) (Chinese Mandarin), reaaliaikainen (Finnish), en temps réel (French), რეალურ დროში (realur droši) (Georgian), in Echtzeit (German), valós idejű (Hungarian), waktu nyata (Indonesian), fíor-ama (Irish), in tempo reale (Italian), リアルタイムの (riarutaimu no) (Japanese), 実時間の (jitsujikan no) (alt: じつじかんの) (Japanese), masa nyata (Malay), sanntids- (Norwegian Bokmål), w czasie rzeczywistym (Polish), em tempo real (Portuguese), în timp real [feminine, masculine] (Romanian), в реа́льном вре́мени (v reálʹnom vrémeni) (alt: производи́мый) (Russian), постоянный (postojannyj) (Russian), u stvarnom vremenu (Serbo-Croatian), v realnem času (Slovene), sproten (Slovene), en tiempo real (Spanish), realtids- (Swedish), gerçek zamanlı (Turkish), eş zamanlı (Turkish), tức thời (Vietnamese), thời gian thực (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'computer term': 0 100

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for real-time meaning in English (7.3kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hard real-time"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "immediate real-time"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "near real-time"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "real-time attack"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "realtimely"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "real-time strategy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "soft real-time"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "real time"
      },
      "expansion": "real time",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From real time.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "real-time (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "real-time"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "real time"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Automotive Engineering International",
          "text": "It will provide a wireless navigation service that can deliver turn-by-turn route guidance and real-time traffic and weather information. Motorola is the first company to create such a solution, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, William J. Mann, Gay Pride: A Celebration Of All Things Gay And Lesbian, Citadel Press",
          "text": "Audiences tolerate the idea of Roxy Hart turning from a “real-time” conversation with her husband or lawyer and launching into a song about her dreams and ambitions. And in the old days, movie audiences did the same: Judy Garland could ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Michael Herman, Intelligence Services in the Information Age, Routledge",
          "text": "This may nevertheless require some re-drawing of boundaries, to integrate real- time or near-real-time intelligence collection with the other means of locating, identifying and tracking major military equipment and units.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Sandford, Deadline: A Virgil Flowers Novel, Penguin, page 167",
          "text": "If not real-time, in-person backup, he at least needed to tell Davenport what was going on, and where he was headed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48",
          "text": "All signage in and around the station is bilingual in Welsh and English, while station announcements and passenger information screens provide real-time information.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay."
      ],
      "id": "en-real-time-en-adj-qzd5ppoF",
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23",
          "text": "The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous."
      ],
      "id": "en-real-time-en-adj-fGbneQWm",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "respond",
          "respond"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "predictable",
          "predictable"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "occurrence",
          "occurrence"
        ],
        [
          "response time",
          "response time"
        ],
        [
          "maximum",
          "maximum"
        ],
        [
          "allowed",
          "allowed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹiːəltaɪm/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹiːltaɪm/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "RT"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "realtime"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "實時"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shíshí",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "实时"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "reaaliaikainen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "en temps réel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "realur droši",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "რეალურ დროში"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "in Echtzeit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "valós idejű"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "waktu nyata"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "fíor-ama"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "in tempo reale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "riarutaimu no",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "リアルタイムの"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "alt": "じつじかんの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jitsujikan no",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "実時間の"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "masa nyata"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "sanntids-"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "w czasie rzeczywistym"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "em tempo real"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "în timp real"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "alt": "производи́мый",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "v reálʹnom vrémeni",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "в реа́льном вре́мени"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postojannyj",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "постоянный"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "u stvarnom vremenu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "v realnem času"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "sproten"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "en tiempo real"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "realtids-"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "gerçek zamanlı"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "eş zamanlı"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "tức thời"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 100",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "thời gian thực"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "real-time"
  ],
  "word": "real-time"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hard real-time"
    },
    {
      "word": "immediate real-time"
    },
    {
      "word": "near real-time"
    },
    {
      "word": "real-time attack"
    },
    {
      "word": "realtimely"
    },
    {
      "word": "real-time strategy"
    },
    {
      "word": "soft real-time"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "real time"
      },
      "expansion": "real time",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From real time.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "real-time (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "real-time"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "real time"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Automotive Engineering International",
          "text": "It will provide a wireless navigation service that can deliver turn-by-turn route guidance and real-time traffic and weather information. Motorola is the first company to create such a solution, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, William J. Mann, Gay Pride: A Celebration Of All Things Gay And Lesbian, Citadel Press",
          "text": "Audiences tolerate the idea of Roxy Hart turning from a “real-time” conversation with her husband or lawyer and launching into a song about her dreams and ambitions. And in the old days, movie audiences did the same: Judy Garland could ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Michael Herman, Intelligence Services in the Information Age, Routledge",
          "text": "This may nevertheless require some re-drawing of boundaries, to integrate real- time or near-real-time intelligence collection with the other means of locating, identifying and tracking major military equipment and units.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Sandford, Deadline: A Virgil Flowers Novel, Penguin, page 167",
          "text": "If not real-time, in-person backup, he at least needed to tell Davenport what was going on, and where he was headed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48",
          "text": "All signage in and around the station is bilingual in Welsh and English, while station announcements and passenger information screens provide real-time information.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23",
          "text": "The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "respond",
          "respond"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "predictable",
          "predictable"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "occurrence",
          "occurrence"
        ],
        [
          "response time",
          "response time"
        ],
        [
          "maximum",
          "maximum"
        ],
        [
          "allowed",
          "allowed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹiːəltaɪm/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹiːltaɪm/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "RT"
    },
    {
      "word": "realtime"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "實時"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shíshí",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "实时"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "reaaliaikainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "en temps réel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "realur droši",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "რეალურ დროში"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "in Echtzeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "valós idejű"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "waktu nyata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "fíor-ama"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "in tempo reale"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "riarutaimu no",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "リアルタイムの"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じつじかんの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jitsujikan no",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "実時間の"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "masa nyata"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "sanntids-"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "w czasie rzeczywistym"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "em tempo real"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "în timp real"
    },
    {
      "alt": "производи́мый",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "v reálʹnom vrémeni",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "в реа́льном вре́мени"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postojannyj",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "постоянный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "u stvarnom vremenu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "v realnem času"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "sproten"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "en tiempo real"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "realtids-"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "gerçek zamanlı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "eş zamanlı"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "tức thời"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "computer term",
      "word": "thời gian thực"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "real-time"
  ],
  "word": "real-time"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.