Dictionary

responsor en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɾɪˈspɔn.sɜː(ɾ)/ (India)
• /ɹɪˈspɔn.sə/ (Australia)
• /ɹɪˈspɒn.səɹ/ (Canada, standard)
• /ɹɪˈspɔn.səɹ/ (General-American) without the cot–caught merger
• /ɹɪˈspɒn.sə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• rĭ-spŏn′sər
• /ɹɪˈspɔn.səɾ/ (Scotland)
• /ɹɪˈspɑn.səɹ/ (Canada, dialectal)
• /ɹəˈspɒn.sə/ (New-Zealand)
• /ɹɪˈspɑn.səɹ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
• /ɾɪˈspɔn.səɾ/ (India)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin respōnsor. First attested in the a. 1649. By surface analysis, clipping of responsory.

Meanings

1. A receiver used in conjunction with an interrogator to receive and interpret signals from a transponder.
   • For a secondary radar system, however, two conditions must be satisfied : St > st and Sr > sr where st and sr are the minimum signals which can be detected by the transponder and responsor respectively. 1961, Electronic Engineering - Volume 33, page 415:
   • The distance between two points at which radio stations are located is determined: at one point is an interrogator (radar) , at the other a responsor (radio beacon) . 1961, Nikolaĭ Grigorʹevich Viduev, Radar in Engineering Explorations, page 31:
   • The duplexing circuits are located between the interrogator and the responsor at the common feed point to the antenna transmission line. 1947, Caldwell-Clements' Tele-Tech - Volume 6, page 64:
2. A person who is assigned responsibility for daily care of a person with a chronic illness and for working with the health care professionals.
   • Often persons in the responsor role are limited in performing this role because of their own ailments. 1982, Nancy Burns, Nursing and Cancer, →ISBN, page 12:
   • Results indicated that the responsors were affected by the illness process. 1986, Christine Lisa Mudge, The Social Support of Spouses of Patients on Hemodialysis, page 15:
   • In one sense the role is not new. The lay family member who attends the sick relative is part of a more ancient tradition than the physician or nurse. What is new in the concept of the responsor is contributed by the increasing complexity of modern therapy for chronic illness and the slow development of organized home care as a formal system for the application of such therapy in private homes. 1978, Anthony R. Kovner, Samuel P. Martin, Community health and medical care, →ISBN, page 158:

Forms

Relateds

responser · responder