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; excite, -er ¹

Example Sentences

Using a device called a vibration exciter, Holowka and colleagues assessed the sensitivity of two types of mechanoreceptor, known as Meissner and Pacinian corpuscles, in their volunteers.

From Nature

We’d go and see Judas Priest and they’d have fast songs that were very exciting – Exciter was ultra fast.

From The Guardian

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

When Judas Priest were sued over the incident in which two fans shot themselves after listening to Stained Class, Halford highlighted the ridiculousness of the claim that they had been driven to do so by subliminal messages on the record when he pointed out that the chorus of Exciter, played backwards, appears have him singing: “I asked her for a peppermint.”

From The Guardian

She’s an exciter, not a divider.

From The New Yorker