The time taken for the display of an instrument to move to a new value following a step change
The time taken for a person (or human-controlled system) to respond to a request
The time that elapses between sending a command to the computer and the receipt of the results at the workstation
The time it takes a system to react to a given input The response time includes the transmission time, the processing time, the time for searching records and the transmission time back to the originator
Time between the sending of a request to a specific Internet server and the execution of that request Top
1 The time required for the absolute value of the difference between the output and its final value to become and remain less than a specified amount, following the application of a step input or disturbance 2 The time required for the output to first reach a definite value after the application of a step input or disturbance 3 The time it takes for a controlled variable to react to a change in input
The length of time between the occurrence of an event and the response of an instrument or circuit to that event
The time period required by a biometric system to return a decision on identification or verification of a biometric sample
The elapsed time between the end of an inquiry or demand on a computer system and the beginning of the response; for example, the length of time between an indication of the end of an inquiry and the display of the first character of the response at a user terminal For response time monitoring, the time from the activation of a transaction until a response is received, according to the response time definition coded in the performance class
Top The time period required by a biometric system to return a yes or no decision on verification of a biometric sample
The elapsed time between the end of an inquiry or demand on a computer system and the beginning of a response; for example, the length of the time between an indication of the end of an inquiry and the display of the first character of the response at a user terminal
The response time or adjustment time is the time needed for the climate system or its components to re-equilibrate to a new state, following a forcing resultinsg from external and internal processes or feedbacks It is very different for various components of the climate system The response time of the troposphere is relatively short, from days to weeks, whereas the stratosphere comes into equilibrium on a time-scale of typically a few months Due to their large heat capacity, the oceans have a much longer response time, typically decades, but up to centuries or millennia The response time of the strongly coupled surface-troposphere system is, therefore, slow compared to that of the stratosphere, and mainly determined by the oceans The biosphere may respond fast, e g to droughts, but also very slowly to imposed changes See: Lifetime, for a different definition of response time pertinent to the rate of processes affecting the concentration of trace gases
The amount of time required for a user to receive a reply to a request Usually the time elapsed between the user pressing a key to send the request and the return of the first character of the response
The time a system or functional unit takes to react to a given input (188) Note: For example, in data processing, the response time perceived by the end user is the interval between (a) the instant at which an operator at a terminal enters a request for a response from a computer and (b) the instant at which the first character of the response is received at a terminal In a data system, the system response time is the interval between the receipt of the end of transmission of an inquiry message and the beginning of the transmission of a response message to the station originating the inquiry
The time required for an instrument to register a designated percentage (frequently 90%) of a step change in the variable being measured
The time lag between sending a request and receiving the data Response time can be applied to a complete computer system, as in the time taken to look up a certain customer record
The elapsed time between the end of an inquiry and the beginning of the response
The time it takes the call centre to respond to transactions that do not have to be handled when they arrive (e g , correspondence or e-mail) See Service Level
The elapsed time between the generation of the last character of a message at a terminal and the receipt of the first character of the reply It includes terminal delay and network delay