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response time en · NOUN

Meanings

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 1896, The medical chronicle, page 136:
2. 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 1931 September 2, “Police Praise Radio as Best Crime Weapon”, in Chicago Tribune:
3. The time taken for the display of an instrument to move to a new value following a step change.
4. 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.

Forms

Deriveds

fractal response time

Translations (10)

fi vasteaika (time between request and computer service response) · pt tempo de resposta (time between request and human response) · fi vasteaika (time between step change and instrument display update) · fi vastausaika (time between request and human response) · es tiempo responsivo (time between request and human response) · pt tempo de resposta (time between request and computer service response) · es tiempo responsivo (time between request and computer service response) · pt tempo de resposta (time between step change and instrument display update) · es tiempo responsivo (time between step change and instrument display update) · es tiempo responsivo (time between stimulus and cell or tissue response)