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What does excitation mean?

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  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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This follows from the response of any resonant system to an impulse-like excitation.
A barrier valve including an armature, longitudinally movable toward a pole core by excitation of an electrical winding.
The increased density ends up requiring more energy for the same amount of excitation that would lead to the boiling of the water.
After light excitation, the protein transfers the excess energy via vibrational relaxation to the surrounding water bath.
The isotropic emission spectra were normalized to the corresponding absorbance at the excitation wavelength.
The excitation source used was an argon-ion laser-pumped, regeneratively amplified Ti-sapphire laser operating at 250 kHz repetition rate.

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