Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In electricity, capable of actuation by its own residual field and of providing its own magnetizing currents when once started: said of generators that are not separately excited.
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Examples
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The magnetic field appears to be generated in the liquid outer core by a “self-exciting dynamo” involving convective fluid flow.
Christopher Monckton: Apocalypse Cancelled « Climate Audit 2006
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Aplysia nervous system is not represented in self-exciting loops of neurons but in changes in synaptic strength.
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Ramón y Cajal, but by dynamic changes resulting from reverberating activity within a closed loop of self-exciting neurons.
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The drive machines of these standby units are mainly diesel motors which drive a synchronous generator along with the accompanying, self-exciting generator.
4. Synchronous machines Hans-Friedrich Hoyer 1991
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Figure 42 shows a synchronous generator with a self-exciting direct current generator.
4. Synchronous machines Hans-Friedrich Hoyer 1991
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A library search informed them that self-exciting exo'thermic metal alloys had existed only in theory-until then.
Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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These latter mediate both a self-braking and a self-exciting (autogenous excitation) reflex action of the muscle.
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The machine is self-exciting under all conditions of atmosphere, owing probably to each plate being influenced by and influencing in turn its neighbor, hence there is the minimum surface for leakage.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various
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Associated in all this work with Wallace at Ansonia was Prof. Moses G. Farmer, famous for the introduction of the fire-alarm system; as the discoverer of the self-exciting principle of the modern dynamo; as a pioneer experimenter in the electric-railway field; as a telegraph engineer, and as a lecturer on mines and explosives to naval classes at Newport.
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Prof. Moses G. Farmer, famous for the introduction of the fire-alarm system; as the discoverer of the self-exciting principle of the modern dynamo; as a pioneer experimenter in the electric-railway field; as a telegraph engineer, and as a lecturer on mines and explosives to naval classes at Newport.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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