Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology medicine English) The period of time between the application of a stimulus and the associated response from a cell or tissue 2 The time taken for a person (or human-controlled system) to respond to a request 3 (context electronics English) The time taken for the display of an instrument to move to a new value following a step change 4 (context computing English) 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
WordNet
n. the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it [syn: reaction time, latency, latent period]
Wikipedia
In technology, response time is the time a system or functional unit takes to react to a given input.
Response time may refer to:
- The time lagged between the input and the output signal which depends upon the value of passive components used.
- Response time (technology), the time a generic system or functional unit takes to react to a given input
- Responsiveness, how quickly an interactive system responds to user input
- Round-trip delay time, in telecommunications
- Emergency response time, the amount of time that emergency responders take to arrive at the scene of an incident from the time that the emergency response system was activated
- Reaction time, the elapsed time between the presentation of a sensory stimulus and the subsequent behavioral response, in Mental chronometry
- Search response time or query response time, the time it takes a web server to respond when it receives a query
Usage examples of "response time".
Each machine stores 406 keys on a carousel, has a response time of less than thirty seconds, and provides complete tracking of key movements.
She had spent the last six months optimizing the EI's response time.
The treatment merely slows the synaptic response time slightly.
The conclusion of the process was marked by a burst of intense crimson light, which expanded outward from the tower's center like a ring of fire and which nearly defeated the lens-darkening response time of their faceplates.
Add to that the response time, and it meant that those two ships back at Xavier would be sparkling debris in someone else's scan by the time help arrived.