Crossword clues for excitation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excitation \Ex`ci*ta"tion\n. [L. excitatio: cf. F. excitation.]
The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
--Bacon.(Physiol.) The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French excitation, from Late Latin excitationem (nominative excitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of excitare "to call out, wake, rouse, stir up" (see excite).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. 2 The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced. 3 (context physiology English) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation 4 (context physics English) The change in state as an excited state is formed by the absorption of a quantum of energy
WordNet
n. the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation" [syn: excitement, inflammation, fervor, fervour]
the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland [syn: innervation, irritation]
something that agitates and arouses; "he looked forward to the excitements of the day" [syn: excitement]
Wikipedia
Excitation or excitement can refer to:
An electric generator or electric motor consists of a rotor spinning in a magnetic field. The magnetic field may be produced by permanent magnets or by field coils. In the case of a machine with field coils, a current must flow in the coils to generate the field, otherwise no power is transferred to or from the rotor. The process of generating a magnetic field by means of an electric current is called excitation.
Usage examples of "excitation".
The two chief obstacles to the cultivation of attentional stability and vividness are excitation and laxity, respectively, and it is the task of introspection to detect the occurrence of these mental processes as soon as they arise.
On this view, excitations occurring during these hypnoid states can easily become pathogenic because such states do not provide opportunities for the normal discharge of the process of excitation.
According to Bohm what we call empty space is the gravitational field, a huge background of energy where matter is a small quantified wavelike excitation on top of this background like a ripple on an ocean.
We call it our Sympathetic-Parasympathetic Integrated Suprarenal Excitation System, or SPISES, for short.
It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism.
But Theos cared nothing for his own life,--some inward excitation of feeling kept him resolute and perfectly controlled.
After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation.
It was the place where converts flourished with maximum energy input, with the greatest quantum excitation.
Another sexual satisfaction at this period of life is the masturbatory excitation of the genitals, which retains so much importance in later life and by many people is never completely conquered.
Mesnet relates some interesting experiments made upon a French sergeant in a condition of somnambulism, demonstrating the excitation of ideas in the mind through the sense of touch in the extremities.
According to Bohm what we call empty space is the gravitational field, a huge background of energy where matter is a small quantified wavelike excitation on top of this background like a ripple on an ocean.
In the dim, flickering light, the blackhearts, their ugly opaque forms trembling as if in a state of excitation, had a freakish, evil look, and as they drifted closer to Espinal, despite my hatred, I felt a twinge of sympathy for the man.
Thus, subtle excitation must entail successive moments of cognition of the meditative object briefly interrupted by cognitions of other objects.
Thus, these contemplatives, in concert with Jewish, Christian, and Hindu contemplatives, present us with the truly astonishing hypothesis that joy arises from the very nature of consciousness once it is free of the afflictions of laxity and excitation and is disengaged from all sensory and mental appearances.
Other thermal groups were attracted by the emissions, attracted and held, transferring power so that Helva felt her Corvikan envelope engorge to incredible dimensions, giving her unlimited mass to energize at an even higher excitation level.