immediate real-time

adjective

Of a system, processing and transmitting data instantly but with negligible, subsecond latency (usually in milliseconds).

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Meanings

adjectiveimmediate real-time (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomputingOf a system, processing and transmitting data instantly but with negligible, subsecond latency (usually in milliseconds).

    Multimedia applications are used on the average desktop. These applications have immediate real-time requirements, because frames need to be delivered to the display at fixed time intervals.

    2012, Samarjit Chakraborty, Jorg Eberspacher (editors), Advances in Real-Time Systems, page 259
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