"reaction time" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: reaction times [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} reaction time (plural reaction times)
  1. The interval between the reception of a stimulus and the initiation of a response Wikipedia link: reaction time Translations (time taken to react): 反應時間 (Chinese Mandarin), 反应时间 (fǎnyìng shíjiān) (Chinese Mandarin), Reaktionszeit [feminine] (German), reaksjonstid [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), reaksjonstid [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-reaction_time-en-noun-ZB07aMW- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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