How to Use excitation in a Sentence

excitation

noun
  • Too much excitation and the brain can produce epileptic seizures.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When this happens, its excitation of other cells can be observed.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When a group of atomic nuclei vibrate, their collective excitation is instead called a phonon.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
  • 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
  • The errors correspond to the system being in a higher energy state, called an excitation.
    — Zaira Nazario, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • But the right balance between excitation and inhibition gives us a nice, clear information signal in the brain.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • Shining bright light into the mice's brains evoked neural activity (excitation).
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2015
  • Bay has a showman’s understanding of the requirements for a happy ending and excitation.
    — Armond White, National Review, 1 July 2022
  • Instead of behaving like conventional magnetic waves called magnons, the excitations broke apart into smaller pieces known as spinons.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Too little excitation can be associated with conditions such as autism.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • These particles dump energy into the atoms, moving the electrons up in energy (called excitation).
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2012
  • 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
  • So that actually breaks the symmetry of the propagation of the excitation.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • The researchers used carefully tuned laser pulses and a technique known as polarization-selective p-shell excitation to guide electrons into this dark state.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
  • And if the atom is currently interacting with another, this excitation frequency shifts slightly so that the electron won’t resonate with the light and won’t be able to make the jump.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Magnons are quantized excitations that carry angular momentum in a material’smagnetic structure.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Neural networks stay nimble by finding the right balance between inhibition and excitation.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 22 Nov. 2021
  • One such topological excitation, called a skyrmion, has been observed in multiple materials.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
  • This is how the researchers analyzed spin waves (collective excitations that move through a material’s magnetic structure).
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The device uses a three-photon excitation method, firing ultrashort light bursts at triple the molecule’s normal absorption wavelength.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This provided a microscopic picture of which specific excitations carried the spin current and at what momentum.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • So the brain generates information through excitation, but is tuned and becomes functional through inhibition.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • Swirling and reaching into the sky, the Shakers sought to expunge their sins and find communion with God, but what is the difference between exorcism and excitation?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Many fundamental excitations occur in the terahertz range.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • What the scientists did here for the first time in this research was create an ultrafast technique in which electrical (not optical) pulses provide the impulsive excitation.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • With excitation, cells fire, transmitting information and signals.
    — Debra Kamin, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2018

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