responsor
/ɹɪˈspɔn.səɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A receiver used in conjunction with an interrogator to receive and interpret signals from a transponder.
noun
A person who is assigned responsibility for daily care of a person with a chronic illness and for working with the health care professionals.
Example Sentences
- "The duplexing circuits are located between the interrogator and the responsor at the common feed point to the antenna transmission line."
- "The distance between two points at which radio stations are located is determined: at one point is an interrogator (radar) , at the other a responsor (radio beacon) ."
- "For a secondary radar system, however, two conditions must be satisfied : St > st and Sr > sr where st and sr are the minimum signals which can be detected by the transponder and responsor respectively."
- "In one sense the role is not new. The lay family member who attends the sick relative is part of a more ancient tradition than the physician or nurse. What is new in the concept of the responsor is contributed by the increasing complexity of modern therapy for chronic illness and the slow development of organized home care as a formal system for the application of such therapy in private homes."
- "Often persons in the responsor role are limited in performing this role because of their own ailments."
- "Results indicated that the responsors were affected by the illness process."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin respōnsor. First attested in the a. 1649. By surface analysis, clipping of responsory.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈspɔn.səɹ/
- British English: /ɹɪˈspɒn.sə/