Timeout question

I had a question about timeouts and requests.
If I do a snmpget with a timeout of t on multiple elements, i.e. snmpget
localhost -t5 sysUpTime.0 sysContact.0 sysDescr.0, does the timeout
apply to the complete request or each element in the request? In other
words, in the example get(snmpget localhost -t5 sysUpTime.0 sysContact.0
sysDescr.0) does the system have 5 seconds to return all 3 objects, or
15 seconds to return all 3 objects(5 seconds per element)?

Susan Reitberger