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excitation

/ek-sahy-tey-shuhn, -si-/US // ˌɛk saɪˈteɪ ʃən, -sɪ- //UK // (ˌɛksɪˈteɪʃən) //

激励,激发,励磁,激励作用

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of exciting.
    • : the state of being excited.
    • : 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.
    • : Physics. a process in which a molecule, atom, nucleus, or particle is excited.
    • : Also called drive. Electronics. the varying voltage applied to the control electrode of a vacuum tube.

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Examples

  • The mind was a machine, something like a battery that built up excitation only to discharge it — in a great rush of relief — through the nervous system’s complicated coils.

  • Cycles in excitation and inhibition form waves that have been linked to different mental states.

  • Too much excitation may overload the brain, while too much inhibition may put it to sleep, Lendner said.

  • As a particle such as an electron moves through space, it constantly interacts with Higgs bosons — excitations of the Higgs field.

  • One of the important characteristics of mania is the super-excitation of the sexual faculty.

  • Even in normal menstruation there is often a marked physiological excitation which affects the entire person.

  • Now the important point is that when this excitation is going on in the brain, we are conscious, we see the picture.

  • Actions of a somewhat similar character normally occur in which it is not easy to point to the excitation of any sense or senses.

  • The excitation of his nerves, however, kept him for the greater part of the night conscious of all that went on in the room.