# Response time

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'''Response time''' may refer to:

*The time lag between an electronic input and the output signal which depends upon the value of passive components used.
*[Responsiveness](/source/Responsiveness), how quickly an interactive system responds to user input
*[Response time (biology)](/source/Response_time_(biology)), the elapsed time from the presentation of a sensory stimulus to the completion of the subsequent behavioral response
*[Response time (technology)](/source/Response_time_(technology)), the time a generic system or functional unit takes to react to a given input
** [Display response time](/source/Display_response_time), the amount of time a pixel in a display takes to change
*[Round-trip delay time](/source/Round-trip_delay_time), in telecommunications
*[Emergency response time](/source/Emergency_service), the amount of time that emergency responders take to arrive at the scene of an incident from the time that the emergency response system was activated
*Search response time or query response time, the time it takes a [web server](/source/web_server) to respond when it receives a query

==See also==
*[Delay (disambiguation)](/source/Delay_(disambiguation))
*[Latency (disambiguation)](/source/Latency_(disambiguation))

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