responsiveness

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English

Etymology

From responsive +‎ -ness.

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Noun

responsiveness (countable and uncountable, plural responsivenesses)

  1. The quality or state of being responsive.
    • 1999, Seymour L. Schwartz, “Burns” (chapter 7), in Principles of Surgery, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, page 234:
      Cell-mediated immunity is impaired after burn injury, including documented delays in allograft rejection, impairment in mitogenic and anogenic responsiveness of lymphocytes, burn-size-related suppression of graftversus-host activity, suppression of delayed cutaneous sensitivity tests, and diminution of peripheral lymphocytes and thoracic duct lymphocyte concentration.
    • 2015 September 26, “Infection by Toxoplasma gondii Induces Amoeboid-Like Migration of Dendritic Cells in a Three-Dimensional Collagen Matrix”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      Altogether, the present data show that the Toxoplasma-induced hypermigratory phenotype in a 3D matrix is consistent with integrin-independent amoeboid DC migration with maintained responsiveness to chemotactic and chemokinetic cues.
  2. The ability of a machine to adjust to external influences.
    The responsiveness of my old PC is nearly zero!

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