Definition of "response" []

• The act of responding. (noun)
• A reply or an answer. (noun)
• A reaction, as that of an organism or a mechanism, to a specific stimulus. (noun)
• Ecclesiastical Something that is spoken or sung by a congregation or choir in answer to the officiating minister or priest. (noun)
• A responsory. (noun)

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• "Do the rest of you play Windows Minesweeper while waiting for pages to load and during any other 3+ second gap in response from the computer?"
• "All I can think of in response is that if she can't take the heat, she should get out of the kitchen. todd"
• "What I would say in response is that if climate change is going to come abruptly, then the major climate models are wrong."