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Response time

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  1. 1
    The period of time between the application of a stimulus and the associated response from a cell or tissue.

    "Professor G. Fano (Florence), after accurately determining the "latent period," or "response time," following faradic stimulation of a given motor area"

  2. 2
    the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it wordnet
  3. 3
    The time taken for a person (or human-controlled system) to respond to a request.

    "the average response time on a call was 3.1 minutes"

  4. 4
    The time taken for the display of an instrument to move to a new value following a step change.
  5. 5
    The period of time between a request for a service and the associated response; typically the request is caused by a user at a terminal hitting the return key, and the response is displayed on a screen.

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