excitation
English
Etymology
From Old French excitation, from Latin excitatio.Morphologically excite + -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɛksaɪˈteɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
excitation (countable and uncountable, plural excitations)
- The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
- 1961 October, “The first 1,250 h.p. Birmingham/Sulzer Type 2 diesels enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 607:
- Generator excitation is obtained by a combination of the separately-excited and self-excited fields, and the output is controlled by a resistance in the separate field circuit adjusted by the load regulator under the control of the engine governor.
- 1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 385:
- Wheelslip automatically causes the main generator field excitation to be reduced; the load regulator is forced back to minimum excitation and, if operating in one of the two stages of traction motor field divert, causes reversion to full field.
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- The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
- (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation
- (physics) A transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule to an excited state by the absorption of a quantum of energy; the opposite of relaxation
Derived terms
- de-excitation
- excitation energy
- excitation function
- self-excitation
Translations
the act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced
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(physiology) activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation
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(physics) change in state as an excited state is formed by the absorption of a quantum of energy
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Anagrams
- intoxicate
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
excitation f (plural excitations)
- excitement
Further reading
- “excitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.