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say it: ri-SPAHNS
response is a noun meaning "a result". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈspɑns/ — ri-SPAHNS. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a result
“this situation developed in response to events in Africa”
a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
“a bad reaction to the medicine”
“his responses have slowed with age”
a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister
the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
“he growled his reply”
the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for response come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.