Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The interval of time between application of a stimulus and detection of a response.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physiol.) in nerve physiology, the interval between the application of a stimulus to an end organ of sense and the reaction or resulting movement; -- called also
physiological time .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
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“17 In the first phase of the experiment, Jeffcoate and his associates determined that the average reaction time of the subjects was 504 milliseconds.”
“So close to land, their reaction time to a shore-launched missile or incoming raid was calculated in seconds rather than minutes.”
“In the third phase, the subjects were given naloxone instead of saline, plus alcohol, and after a 40-minute period their reaction time was tested.”
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