Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of exciting or an instance of it.
- n. The state or condition of being excited.
- n. Physiology The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of exciting or rousing to action; a stirring up or awakening.
- n. The state of being excited; excitement.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
- n. The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
- n. physiology The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation
- n. physics The change in state as an excited state is formed by the absorption of a quantum of energy
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
- n. (Physiol.) The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- n. the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- n. something that agitates and arouses
Examples
“The musical notes of the string are called excitation modes compared to the string at rest.”
“They react only weakly to chemical reagents which produce strong dilation in the tongue, and while very slight mechanical irritation can cause some dilation, as a rule they contract when the excitation is stronger.”
“Here therefore the admixture of central inhibition with central excitation is a normal feature of a natural reflex.”
“The quantitative character of the interaction between opposed inhibition and excitation is experimentally demonstrable.”
“The standard excitation is found to be then diminished (as shown by the twitch-contraction which it evokes) more than it is if subjected to either one inhibitory volley only.”
“Here the initial reflex excitation is closely followed by an ensuing reflex inhibition commingled with and partially counter-acting the concurrent excitation.”
“Since reciprocal innervation has been observed to obtain between these muscles, the phase of lapse of excitation is probably one of filer active inhibition.”
“for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”
“An extremely feeble stimulus is below the limit of perception, a moderate stimulus transmits excitation, which is perceived as sensation of not an unpleasant character, but the tone of sensation becomes painful when the excitation is very intense.”
“His frame quivered with the "rapture of the strife," as Attila is said to have called the excitation of battle; and his blood, with a genuine southern fervor, rushed to and from his heart with a bounding impulse, as some new achievement of one side or the other added a fresh interest to, and in some measure altered the face of, the affair.”
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