response time

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsreaction timelatencylatent period

   Broadertime interval

Questions about response time

What does response time mean?

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

What is another word for response time?

Close synonyms include reaction time, latency, latent period. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is response time a common word?

response time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.