self-exciting

Verb

self-excite (third-person singular simple present self-excites, present participle self-exciting, simple past and past participle self-excited)

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.
   • Using metal rollers to simulate the earth's cylindrical eddy currents, the team found some interesting results after beginning with a few viscosity problems. "...a more efficient geometry was found, so efficient that the dynamo would self-excite in a completely homogeneous state (i.e. with no...1994, The Free-energy Device Handbook, page 116
2. To self-generate a state of excitation.
   • Thus warning systems can self-excite when they go on alert: When a decision maker thinks that an attack is likely, he will place more credence in reports indicating that a war is imminent than he would if the same information were received in a period of calm, and actions of the other side that...1998, Robert Jervis, System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life, page 150