(also wall clock time)
1. `Real world' time (what the clock on the wall shows), as opposed
to the system clock's idea of time.
2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of
{tick}s required to execute it (on a timesharing system these always
differ, as no one program gets all the ticks, and on multiprocessor
systems with good thread support one may get more processor time than
real time).
[glossary]
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