real-time operation

1. 1.

   data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process

   Synonymsreal-time processing

   Broaderdata processing

Questions about real-time operation

What does real-time operation mean?

real-time operation means "data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process".

What is another word for real-time operation?

Close synonyms include real-time processing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is real-time operation a common word?

real-time operation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.