# Real-time

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

## Computing

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

### Applications

- [Real-time computer graphics](/source/Real-time_computer_graphics), sub-field of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time
- [Real-time camera](/source/Real-time_camera), for controlling views in a 3D virtual environment
- [Real-time communication](/source/Real-time_communication), for interactive communication
- [Real-time operating system](/source/Real-time_operating_system), for running real-time software
- [Real-time protection](/source/Real-time_protection), protection enabled constantly, rather than by, for example, an antivirus scan
- [Real-time text](/source/Real-time_text), transmitted as it is being typed or produced
- [Real-time Java](/source/Real-time_Java), for real-time programs in Java programming language
- [Real-time disk encryption](/source/Real-time_disk_encryption), encrypting data as it is written to disk
- [Real-time web](/source/Real-time_web), whereby information is sent to users as it becomes available
- [Live streaming](/source/Live_streaming), continuously delivering multimedia as the depicted events are happening
- [Real-Time Streaming Protocol](/source/Real-Time_Streaming_Protocol), an internet protocol for real-time media streaming
- [Collaborative real-time editor](/source/Collaborative_real-time_editor), simultaneous editing of a document by several users
- [Real-time simulation](/source/Real-time_simulation), simulation able to run at the same rate as reality
- [Real-time blackhole list](/source/Real-time_blackhole_list), a Domain Name System (DNS) blacklist
- Real-time Cmix, a music [programming language](/source/Programming_language)
- [Real-Time AudioSuite](/source/Real-Time_AudioSuite), audio plug-in software for Avid Pro Tools

## Other science and technology

- [Real-time locating system](/source/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](/source/Real-time_gross_settlement), an online system for settling financial transactions
- [Real-time kinematic](/source/Real-time_kinematic), a satellite navigation technique
- [Real-time polymerase chain reaction](/source/Real-time_polymerase_chain_reaction), a laboratory technique which monitors target DNA during the PCR

## Companies

- [Realtime Associates](/source/Realtime_Associates), an American video game developer
- [Realtime Games Software](/source/Realtime_Games_Software), a defunct British video game developer
- [Realtime Gaming](/source/Realtime_Gaming), a company that develops gambling software
- [Realtime Worlds](/source/Realtime_Worlds), a Scottish game developer

## Film, television and radio

- [Real time (media)](/source/Real_time_(media)), a method where events are portrayed at the same rate at which the characters experience them
- [*Real Time* (Doctor Who)](/source/Real_Time_(Doctor_Who)), a webcast
- [*Real Time* (film)](/source/Real_Time_(film)), a 2008 film
- [*RealTime* (radio show)](/source/RealTime_(radio_show)), a radio show on CBC 2
- [Real Time (TV channel)](/source/Real_Time_(TV_channel)), an Italian television channel
- *[Real Time with Bill Maher](/source/Real_Time_with_Bill_Maher)*, a talk/interview show on HBO

## Music

- [*Real Time* (The Jazztet album)](/source/Real_Time_(The_Jazztet_album)), 1986, by the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet
- [*Real Time* (Steam album)](/source/Real_Time_(Steam_album)), 1996
- [*Real Time* (Van der Graaf Generator album)](/source/Real_Time_(Van_der_Graaf_Generator_album)), 2007
- [*Realtime* (C:Real album)](/source/Realtime_(C:Real_album)), 1997
- [*Realtime* (Shapeshifter album)](/source/Realtime_(Shapeshifter_album)), 2001
- [Realtime (quartet)](/source/Realtime_(quartet)), a barbershop quartet

## Art and literature

- *Real Time* (2004), a novel by [Pnina Moed Kass](/source/Pnina_Moed_Kass)
- *[RealTime](/source/RealTime)*, an Australian arts magazine
- [Real Time (art series)](/source/Real_Time_(art_series)), a series of clocks by Maarten Baas

## See also

- [On the fly](/source/On_the_fly), a phrase used to describe something that is being changed while it is ongoing

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