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soft real-time

soft real-time adjective: being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.

Adjective

soft real-time (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.
    Antonyms:
    hard real-time

Antonyms of soft real-time

Questions about soft real-time

What does soft real-time mean?
Soft real-time means being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.
What part of speech is soft real-time?
Soft real-time is an adjective.

Words near soft real-time in the dictionary

  1. soft porn
  2. soft power
  3. soft powers
  4. soft pull
  5. soft pulls
  6. soft real-time
  7. soft reboot
  8. soft reboots
  9. soft redirect
  10. soft redirects
  11. soft reference

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