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self-excited

self-excited adjective: relating to a machine or system that generates or excites its own magnetic field. Also the simple past and past participle of self-excite.

Adjective

self-excited (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a machine or system that generates or excites its own magnetic field.
    • The main generator, of type WT.981, is a 10-pole, single-bearing machine with four field windings - separately excited, self-excited, reverse series and starting. [...] Generator excitation is obtained by a combination of the separately-excited and self-excited fields, and the output is controlled...1961 October, “The first 1,250 h.p. Birmingham/Sulzer Type 2 diesels enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 607

Also used as

self-excited is also the simple past and past participle of self-excite.

Origin of self-excited

From self- + excited. By surface analysis, self-excite + -ed.

Questions about self-excited

What does self-excited mean?
Self-excited means relating to a machine or system that generates or excites its own magnetic field.
What part of speech is self-excited?
Self-excited is an adjective.

Words near self-excited in the dictionary

  1. self-examinations
  2. self-exams
  3. self-excitation
  4. self-excitations
  5. self-excite
  6. self-excited
  7. self-excites
  8. self-exciting
  9. self-exclusion
  10. self-exclusions
  11. self-executing

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