real-time clock
real-time clock A clock that runs regardless of whether processes that refer to the clock are running or not. The clock may take two forms, either as a peripheral device that can be read by a process when the process chooses, or as a source of interrupts that occur at precisely determined intervals. A real-time clock measures elapsed time. See also relative-time clock.
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