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

Computing

Real-time computing Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for Computer hardware, hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from Event (synchronization primitive), event to Event (computing), system response. Rea ...

, 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 Real-time communication (RTC) is a category of software protocols and communication hardware media that gives real-time guarantees, which is necessary to support real-time guarantees of real-time computing. Real-time communication Protocols (comp ...

, for interactive communication * Real-time operating system, for running real-time software * Real-time protection, protection enabled constantly, rather than by, for example, an antivirus scan * Real-time text, transmitted as it is being typed or produced * Real-time Java, for real-time programs in Java programming language *

Real-time disk encryption Disk encryption is a technology which protects information by converting it into code that cannot be deciphered easily by unauthorized people or processes. Disk encryption uses disk encryption software or disk encryption hardware, hardware to encry ...

, encrypting data as it is written to disk * Real-time web, whereby information is sent to users as it becomes available *

Live streaming Livestreaming, live-streaming, or live streaming is the streaming media, streaming of video or Digital audio, audio in real-time communication, real time or near real time. While often referred to simply as ''streaming'', the real-time nature ...

, continuously delivering multimedia as the depicted events are happening * Real-Time Streaming Protocol, an 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 Domain Name System (DNS) blacklist * Real-time Cmix, a music

programming language A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Programming languages are described in terms of their Syntax (programming languages), syntax (form) and semantics (computer science), semantics (meaning), usually def ...

* 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 real-time polymerase chain reaction (real-time PCR, or qPCR when used quantitatively) is a laboratory technique of molecular biology based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It monitors the amplification of a targeted DNA molecule durin ...

, 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/interview 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