Real-time

Real-time, realtime, or real time may refer to:

Computing

• Real-time computing, hardware and software systems subject to a specified time constraint
• Real-time clock, a computer clock that keeps track of the current time
• Real-time Control System, a reference model architecture suitable for software-intensive, real-time computing
• Real-time Programming Language, a compiled database programming language which expresses work to be done by a particular time

Applications

• Real-time computer graphics, sub-field of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time
• Real-time camera, for controlling views in a 3D virtual environment
• Real-time communication, for interactive communication
• 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 as the depicted events are happening
• Real-Time Streaming Protocol, internet protocol for real-time media streaming
• 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, audio plug-in software for Avid Pro Tools

Other science and technology

• Real-time locating system, a system used to automatically identify and track the location of objects or people in real time
• Real-time gross settlement, an online system for settling financial transactions
• Real-time kinematic, a satellite navigation technique
• Real-time polymerase chain reaction, a laboratory technique which monitors target DNA during the PCR

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

Film, television and radio

• Real time (media), a method where events are portrayed at the same rate at which the characters experience them
• Real Time (Doctor Who), a webcast
• Real Time (film), a 2008 film
• RealTime (radio show), a radio show on CBC 2
• Real Time (TV channel), an Italian television channel
• Real Time with Bill Maher, a talk show on HBO

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

Art and literature

• Real Time (2004), a novel by Pnina Moed Kass
• RealTime, an Australian arts magazine
• Real Time (art series), a series of clocks by Maarten Baas

See also

• All pages with titles containing Real-time
• On the fly, a phrase used to describe something that is being changed while it is ongoing