Definitions for "Real Time"
processing data with the results available immediately.
The instantaneous response of a computer or device to instructions: the normal viewing time of any film or videotape program.
adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then.
Keywords:  instant, scenery, snail, deeper, cave
When the scenery changes in response to your actions, rather than just showing you the same scene no matter what you do. For example, it would get darker the deeper that you walked into a cave. Games with this innovation require a very fast computer because the computer has to calculate your change in position moment by moment, as if you were really there. Back to the Index of Terms
Communication where information is received at (or nearly at) the instant it is sent.
Refers to actual time. In terms of the Internet, it means that you can get an instant response to whatever you do. Think of how you speak on the phone versus how you send a paper letter through snail mail; when you're on the phone you get instant responses - in real time - from the person on the other end to whatever you say. When you send a letter through snail mail, you have to wait for it to get picked up by the postal carrier, taken to the post office, and delivered before you can get a response.
Keywords:  retroweaver, regmon, roedy, ruby, green
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Refers to tasks or functions executed so rapidly that the feedback is used to guide task completion. The performance of computations concerning a physical process such that their results are used in controlling the process. (7/96)
Tasks or functions executed so rapidly that the user gets an impression of continuous visual feedback.
Keywords:  whent, goes, fishing, manager, period
Period whent the manager goes fishing.
Reports and displays that show the current state of play: Calls waiting, calls abandoned etc. Usually within the last 30 or 60 minute period.
see synchronous communication
In video editing, manipulation of the signal that takes place as the video plays.