excitation
excitation
Definition
ex·ci·ta·tion (ek′sī tā′s̸hən)
noun
an exciting or being excited
Etymology: ME excitacioun < LL excitatio
excitation
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- electron: Estimate the wavelength of the spectral transition for excitation of the electron from its ground state to the first excited state.
- molecule: Restrictions: The model does not take into account possible excitation of molecules during the reactions.
Adjective modifier
- vibrational: The second section involves learning about the vibrational excitations of the crystal lattice - phonons.
- sinusoidal: The model excited the forms of the Van der Pol equations with sinusoidal excitation at their natural frequency.
- parametric: On the other hand, control of these chaotic motions is also studied by applying a parametric periodic excitation.
- synchronous: The theory behind pedestrian induced lateral vibrations on bridges is that of synchronous lateral excitation.
- lateral: The theory behind pedestrian induced lateral vibrations on bridges is that of synchronous lateral excitation.
- coherent: Coherent excitations The energy efficiency of living systems can be adequately accounted for by the thermodynamic considerations I have outlined so far.
Modifies a noun
- wavelength: With the addition of the copper metal center in compound 2, the uranium emission is absent regardless of the excitation wavelength.
- voltage: The module has the facility to measure the excitation voltage actually applied to the bridge.
- spectra: This is designed to remove much of the labor involved in generating, for example, vertical excitation spectra.
- coupling: The sarcoplasmic reticulum ( SR ) of heart muscle plays an essential role in the process of excitation contraction coupling.
- contraction: The sarcoplasmic reticulum ( SR ) of heart muscle plays an essential role in the process of excitation contraction coupling.
- pulse: Some restrictions would exist for thin coatings where the sample signal would be masked by the ringing triggered by the excitation pulse.
Noun used with modifier
- two-photon: The example here shows 3-D images of vasculature in vivo, obtained using two-photon fluorescence excitation.
- fluorescence: Using fluorescence excitation, sensitivities down to the single molecule detection limit can be achieved.
- laser: For biological systems, sub 300 nm laser excitation sources would be of great benefit, particularly to protein scientists.
- electron: This loss of electron density results in a reduction of electron impact excitation reactions in that region.
- wave: The current project is tackling the complex interaction problems associated with bodies which are free to respond to wave excitation.
- impact: Impact excitation is used to determine the Young's modulus of the coating independent of Poisson's ratio.
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