See Also: response(dictionary)
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th1 response(medicine)
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Th2 Response(medicine)
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recruiting response(medicine)
response generalisation(medicine)
psychogalvanic response(medicine)

response (iou)



response noun. ME.
[Old French respons (mod. repons) or response (mod. reponse), or Latin responsum, from respons- pa. ppl stem of respondere RESPOND verb.]
An answer, a reply. ME.
b. An answer given by an oracle; an answer attibuted to a supernatural source. L15.
c. Bridge. A bid made on the basis of a partner's preceding bid. M20.
Ecclesiastical. = RESPONSORY noun. Also, a part of the liturgy said or sung by a congregation in reply to the priest. LME.
Music. A repetition of the subject of a fugue by another part. L18.
An action or feeling caused by a stimulus or influence; a reaction; spec. (chiefly Psychology) an excitation of a nerve impulse caused by any change or event; a physical reaction to a specific stimulus or situation; the action or fact of reacting to a stimulus. E19.
N. Tinbergen Stimuli that influenced the chick's begging response. D. Morris Equipped with a set of instinctive responses to..sexual signals. S. Bellow My response was dead silence.
b. The way in which an apparatus responds to a stimulus or range of stimuli. E20.
Phrases: in response in reply (to), by way of reaction (to).
Comb.: response time Electricity the time taken for a circuit or measuring device, when subjected to a change in input signal, to change its state by a specified fraction of its total response to that change.
responseless adjective M19.
responser noun (rare) a person who makes a response M19.