RESPONSE TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does response time mean? 

• RESPONSE TIME (noun)
  The noun RESPONSE TIME has 1 sense:

1. the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

  Familiarity information: RESPONSE TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPONSE TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

latency; latent period; reaction time; response time

Hypernyms ("response time" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

 Context examples 

The nongenomic or nontranscriptional activation cascade for the estrogen receptor was determined based on the rapid response times observed for the activation of the MAPK cascade and other cell proliferation effects.

(Pelp1 Estrogen Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)