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excitation

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The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.

The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.

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That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. Charles Scott Sherrington

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing. E. B. White

It is possible to apply statistical methods to the calculation of nuclear processes provided that the energies involved are large in comparison with the lowest excitation energies of nuclei. Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it. Charles Scott Sherrington

The separate excitation of the dynamo corresponds with the independently determined investment in the economic model, and the total excitation with income. Perhaps in this electrical age, the conventional metaphor of ‘priming the pump' might be dropped in favour of ‘exciting the dynamo'. Arnold Tustin

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. Wole Soyinka

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