English Explanatory Dictionary

self-excite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To energize or excite (the field magnets of a dynamo) by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.
  2. To self-generate a state of excitation.

Word forms

self-excite self-excites self-exciting self-excited

Etymology

From self- + excite.

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