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Words related to response
re·sponse
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answer
When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them. -
reaction
a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner. -
conditioned response
a response that is transferred from the second to the first of a pair of stimuli. A well-known Pavlovian example is salivation by a dog when it hears a bell ring, because food has always been presented when the bell has been rung previously -
counterreply
a reply made in response to a reply; rejoinder. -
reflex
Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector. -
selectance
a measure of the drop in response of a radio receiving set or the like to a given frequency differing from the resonant frequency of the device, expressed as the ratio of the amplitude of the response at the resonant frequency to the amplitude of the response at the given frequency.