reaction time

Response time stands for:

• generally a time span between action and reaction, see delay time
• In road traffic, the startling time required to react (traffic situation ) - it is at least a few tenths of a second
• in astrometry the personal equation for star passage measurements
• in sociology the reaction time (psychology)
• in electronics, the response time of flat screens
• an assumed threshold value for the perception of delays, see Human Response Time
• the reaction rate in chemistry, see kinetics (chemistry)
• the reaction era, in the history of Germany the period from 1849–1858
• the reaction time in sports

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Wiktionary: Response time  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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