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What does excitation mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word excitation? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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. (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation
  4. (physics) The change in state as an excited state is formed by the absorption of a quantum of energy
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Chemiluminescence is a special case of luminescence in which the excitation source is a chemical reaction.
The increased density ends up requiring more energy for the same amount of excitation that would lead to the boiling of the water.
This follows from the response of any resonant system to an impulse-like excitation.
Variable frequency sawtooth waveforms are often utilized as an excitation signal in a digital musical synthesizer.
The major axes of both ellipses point nearly in the direction of maximum hair bundle excitation.
It is consistent with emission from different rotamers of the cyanine dyes formed immediately after excitation.

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