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response
  1. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
  2. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
  3. An oracular answer.
  4. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
  5. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
  6. A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
  7. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
  8. A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “She provided the perfect response to the question that was posed to her by the journalist.”
      “The president's speech provoked an emotional response from audiences across the nation.”
      “Growth response in distinction to the phototropic growth response, typically follows symmetrical illumination of the sporangiophore from above.”
respondent
  1. (law) person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. In some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.
  2. One who responds. See also correspondent.
  3. Person replying to a questionnaire.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Do you say that the respondent appealed or sought special leave to appeal against that decision?”
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responsion
  1. (rare) An answer or reply; a response.
  2. (plural) The first of three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford; nicknamed the little go and generally taken around the time of matriculation.
responsiveness
  1. The quality or state of being responsive.
  2. The ability of a machine to adjust to external influences.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Heightened responsiveness to heat stimulation appeared within 30 seconds after heat excitation.”
      “Tourism managers may also see themselves as incapable of failure, reducing their responsiveness to danger signals and scanning the environment for potential crises.”
      “This requires leadership that can ensure recognition and responsiveness to new ideas and knowledge shared by local teams.”
responsal
  1. (obsolete) One who is answerable or responsible.
  2. (obsolete) A response.
respondence
  1. (obsolete) Response, answer.
  2. (now rare) Correspondence, agreement.
responsitivity
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being responsive.
  2. (countable) A measure of the degree to which something is responsive.
  3. Synonyms:
responsivity
  1. A measure of responsiveness
  2. (physics) A measure of the gain of a system
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Dr Xu pointed out that the PSB was establishing spectral responsivity scales traced to a cryogenic radiometer.”
      “The responsivity principle is of particular importance in the context of Aboriginal offenders.”
      “Habituation represents a progressive loss of behavioral responsivity to a stimulus as its lack of adaptive significance is recognized.”
responsory
  1. A chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service
responsorial
responder
  1. A person that responds to an emergency situation or other calling.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The responder confidently answered the interviewer's questions during the job interview.”
      “If responder has a count of 12 points he can jump straight to three No-Trumps.”
      “Each first responder group has to help raise money towards the cost of the team's first aid kit that is held by whichever member is on duty.”
respondency
  1. Alternative form of respondence
respondee
  1. One who is responded to.
responding
responsitivities
responsivenesses
responsorials
  1. plural of responsorial
responsivities
  1. plural of responsivity
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To maintain the continuity of the record it is necessary that the cycled radiometers have the same spectral responsivities.”
respondences
  1. plural of respondence
responsions
  1. plural of responsion
respondings
respondents
  1. plural of respondent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Other pollsters ask their respondents to qualify their answers, instead of giving simple yes-or-no replies.”
      “When the questioner is employed by the state broadcaster of one of the occupying powers, the respondents might be expected to answer warily.”
      “The appraisal begins by assessing the respondents awareness of health promotion.”
responsories
  1. plural of responsory
  2. Examples:
    1. “The chants set were Vespers responsories, Mass graduals, and alleluias, and perhaps some processional antiphons.”
      “Each folio has the incipits of the hours of the Virgin on the recto, and the lessons, responsories and versicles from the office of the dead on the verso.”
      “From these he inwardly confected a honey of antiphons, responsories, hymns, and other items pertaining to the Office and stored it in the hive of his wax tablets.”
responders
  1. plural of responder
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To achieve this objective, responders were asked to rate their computer knowledge.”
      “Even when so-called placebo responders are dropped from a study, a good proportion of the remaining patients respond to placebos anyway.”
      “The role of veterinarians as first responders to outbreaks of animal disease is central to national efforts to defend against agroterrorism.”
respondees
  1. plural of respondee
  2. Examples:
    1. “Other respondees thought this predicted the appearance of Yeti or Bigfoot.”
responsals
  1. plural of responsal
responses
  1. plural of response
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The various accommodations are not an immediate effect of unemployment but are gradual and incremental responses over time.”
      “The manager does not take punishment well, and is waspish in his responses to journalists who question his tactics and second-season signings.”
      “More applicably, altitude-induced hypoxia may have an independent influence on redox-sensitive adaptive responses to exercise.”
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