0 saying or doing something as a reaction to something or someone, especially in a quick or positive way: --
1 quick to act, esp. to meet the needs of someone or something: --
He had promised a government responsive to the people.
Note, however, the sense in which the judge's decision is responsive to the par ticipation of the (losing) defendant as well.
In lateral thalamus, cells responsive to painful stimuli are located in the core area and in the postero-inferior area.
Thus, rate responsive ventricular pacemakers seem to adequately respond to the daily life physiological needs of this selected group of children requiring permanent pacing.
This form of behaviour requires that a subsystem participant is not responsive to the past policy preferences of other participants.
The researcher-curiosity process is a standard research funding process in which the funding is responsive to research suggested by research teams.
Several critics have noted that the novel seems responsive to the climate in which psychic investigations are beginning to take place.
A justification responsive to the parochialism objection is nowhere to be found in the texts of the conventions that list putative human rights.
Visual neurons responsive to faces in monkey temporal cortex.