What do the different times mean when using UNIX's "time" command?

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Published on 2010-05-24T09:41:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 9:51 UTC
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When I time a program on Ubuntu 10.4 I get output like:

real    0m14.581s
user    0m14.570s
sys     0m0.010s

What do these different categories mean?

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