Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Real time
also realtime, 1. live online communications. The term refers to several types of information transmissions. For example, real time chat programs provide users with a medium to communicate live by typing messages back and forth. Real time stock quotes give users individual live stock quotes as they change throughout the trading day. Stock quotes can be .snapshot. or .streaming.. Streaming real time quotes change on the user’s monitor as they change on the exchange trading floor. Snapshot quotes are real at the time they are downloaded, but must be refreshed manually for subsequent updates. 2. immediate response to an input command by a computer. Most operating systems can take several seconds to minutes to respond to commands, thus do not respond in real time.
