self-excited
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]self-excited
- Relating to a machine or system that generates or excites its own magnetic field.
- 1961 October, “The first 1,250 h.p. Birmingham/Sulzer Type 2 diesels enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 607:
- 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 by a resistance in the separate field circuit adjusted by the load regulator under the control of the engine governor.
Verb
[edit]self-excited
- simple past and past participle of self-excite
References
[edit]- “self-excited”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.