How to Use excitation in a Sentence

excitation

noun

• In particular, the electron can be thought of as an excitation in a quantum field known as the Dirac field, and this field may be what carries the spin of the electron.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
• The mind was a machine, something like a battery that built up excitation only to discharge it — in a great rush of relief — through the nervous system’s complicated coils.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• When a group of atomic nuclei vibrate, their collective excitation is instead called a phonon.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
• The errors correspond to the system being in a higher energy state, called an excitation.
  — Zaira Nazario, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Our excitation system, or gas pedal, revs us up, and an inhibition system, or brake pedal, slows us down.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
• So that actually breaks the symmetry of the propagation of the excitation.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Bay has a showman’s understanding of the requirements for a happy ending and excitation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 July 2022
• In the case of Europa, the excitation energy doesn't come from light, but that energy is indirectly powered by Jupiter's magnetic fields.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
• In behavioral studies, the team found that this excitation was in full swing in the posterior amygdala neurons projecting into the MPN during mating.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
• These particles dump energy into the atoms, moving the electrons up in energy (called excitation).
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2012
• In this process, called luminance, the metal absorbs energy from the explosion, something called excitation, emitting a color of light specific to that metal.
  — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
• Because antennas need to be sized based on the excitation wavelength used to stimulate them, using nanometer-wavelength laser light allows for much smaller chips compared to RFID tags, which are millimeters to centimeters in size.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023
• Shining bright light into the mice's brains evoked neural activity (excitation).
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2015
• With pulses that short, observers can harness a free-electron laser to see individual atoms in motion, molecules making and breaking bonds, and even electron orbitals in excitation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
• Infrared excitation in the copper sulfide creates hot electrons and holes, which are injected into the cadmium sulfide and recombine to emit high-energy light in the visible region.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
• In his decade-ago Showscan experiments, Trumbull proved that faster frame rates produce increasing levels of emotional excitation.
  — Hugh Hart, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2012
• Baker said the oldest explanation is the inhibition/excitation balance theory — which means their brains may get overexcited when faced with some form of stimulation.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2018
• Neural networks stay nimble by finding the right balance between inhibition and excitation.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 22 Nov. 2021
• Also, different kinds of tissues in the body respond differently to excitation; bone responds differently to brain grey matter, for example.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2010
• One such topological excitation, called a skyrmion, has been observed in multiple materials.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
• However this creates a problem because the brain must maintain a delicate balance between excitation and inhibition.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2012
• What captivated him then were chameleons—reptiles that change color for camouflage or to indicate excitation, rivalry, or submission.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Unfortunately, hydrophobia is a later symptom of rabies, occurring during what’s known as the excitation phase, which is followed by the inevitably fatal paralytic phase.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• Recall that electrons and holes—the charge carriers in a semiconductor—normally exist in a minute quantity in an undoped semiconductor, as a result of thermal excitation at room temperature.
  — Sid Assawaworrarit, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
• According to this theory, each fundamental subatomic particle corresponds to an excitation of a string, analogous to a musical note played on a guitar.
  — Graham Farmelo, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• Scientists have long suspected that other particles might play a role in that de-excitation, especially neutrons, which carry no electrical charge and can penetrate nuclei and take away extra energy.
  — Ling Xin, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2020
• The quasiparticles, a concept the Department of Energy says helps scientists describe the patterns that emerge when subatomic particles interact in huge numbers, are collective excitations of many electrons in solid devices.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 May 2023
• The pulsed acoustic pressure wave may locally shift the balance of excitation and inhibition by acting on mechanically sensitive components of the brain, including cell membranes, ion channels and synaptic vesicle cycles (1).
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2014
• The exquisite timing and placement of these different neuron cell types is critical for establishing a balance between excitation and inhibition within brain circuits.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• Moral scrutiny based on Judeo-Christian tradition has become virtually nonexistent in most Millennial movies — which are primarily devoted to shrill excitation or nihilism — yet Ostlund’s satirical approach is part of the same problem.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024