Response Time

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The time interval between the beginning of a sustained disturbance and the instant when the resulting change in the output signal reaches a specified fraction of its final steady-state value, either before overshoot or in the absence of overshoot.

Figure 3 - Typical time response of a system to a step increase of input.

Reference: I.E.C.

Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)

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