A real-time stock or bond quote is one that states a security's most recent offer to sell or bid ( buy). Different from a delayed quote, which shows the same bid and ask prices 15 minutes and sometimes 20 minutes after a trade takes place. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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real-time ˈreal-time adjective
COMPUTING a real-time computer system deals with information as fast as it receives it, so that it can produce information about changes as soon as they happen:
• The company supplies real-time financial information.
— real time noun [uncountable] :
• Airline booking systems need to work in real time.
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real-time UK US /ˈrɪəltaɪm/ adjective [before noun]
► IT, INTERNET used to describe the way in which a computer system receives data and then communicates it or makes it available immediately: »
Our system allows suppliers to tap directly into our order systems with real-time access to order flow.
»Today, faster communications and real-time trading mean that fluctuations in the market in New York travel around the world almost instantly.
»real-time data/information/communications
Financial and business terms. 2012.