exciter

American  

[ik-sahy-ter] / ɪkˈsaɪ tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that excites.

2. Electricity. an auxiliary generator that supplies energy for the excitation of another electric machine.

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exciter British  

/ ɪkˈsaɪtə /

noun

1. a person or thing that excites

2. a small generator that excites a larger machine

3. an oscillator producing a transmitter's carrier wave

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Etymology

Origin of exciter

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at excite, -er ¹

Example Sentences

At last, modeling the outcome of each possible bit, they discovered one that turned off the exciter, which generates the spacecraft’s radio signal; when they turned it back on, the transmissions resumed.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2017

Each finger ring contains a small, independently controlled exciter transducer commonly used for auditory bone conduction.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2015

Chief exciter was a thickset, sturdy, 55-year-old Republican Congressman from Canton, Pa. by the name of Louis T. McFadden.

From Time Magazine Archive

All those fine first feelings, of which he had hoped to be the exciter, were already given.

From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane

"All set, then, Rovol?" asked Seaton, when the forces flying from the projector had built the compound exciter which would make possible the disruption of the atoms of uranium.

From Skylark Three by Wessolowski, Hans Waldemar