excitation

Example Sentences

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“Putting all this together for a few atoms, under a strong pulsed excitation, is not science fiction at the moment,” del Valle says.

From Scientific American

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.

From Washington Post

Each known particle is an excitation within its own field, the way a photon is an excitation of the electromagnetic field.

From Washington Post

Now they languish, sun seeping into feldspars and micas, into the quartzes until they quiver with pure excitation—in heat and cold, wind and stillness, through minutes and millennia— and still radiate impassiveness.

From Scientific American

Inhibitory interneurons have increased influence as neuronal excitation increases — this enables neural circuits to respond differentially to a wider range of input strengths9.

From Nature