Definitions for excitation

excitation ex·ci·ta·tion

Spelling: [ek-sahy-tey-shuh n, -si-]
IPA: /ˌɛk saɪˈteɪ ʃən, -sɪ-/

Excitation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 354 anagrams from letters in excitation (aceiinottx).

Definitions for excitation

noun

  1. the act of exciting.
  2. the state of being excited.
  3. Electricity. the application of voltage to an electric device, as an electron-tube circuit, an antenna, or a dynamotor, often for producing a magnetic field in the device. the voltage applied.
  4. Physics. a process in which a molecule, atom, nucleus, or particle is excited.
  5. Also called drive. Electronics. the varying voltage applied to the control electrode of a vacuum tube.

Origin of excitation

1350-1400; Middle English excitacioun Late Latin excitātiōn- (stem of excitātiō), equivalent to Latin excitāt(us) (past participle of excitāre; see excite) + -iōn-

Examples for excitation

Is there not here all the excitation in the world for our sorrow, our pity, our indignation?

The amplitude of the response-curve measures the intensity of excitation.

And therefore the will could suspend its exercise and its excitation of the mind.

Their recollection is not an act of the will, but an excitation by the object that originally produced it.

On September 14 he tried various experiments on the excitation of electricity.

I may read him to-day with enjoyment, but safe from excitation.

excitation is detected in Mimosa by the downward movement of the leaf.

This mode of propagation may better be described as a convection of excitation.

Now, every vital action supposes an excitation or irritation.

We all dropt in spirit like so many sacks, after the excitation of the morning.

Word Value for excitation
Scrable

19

Words with friends

21

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