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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SELF-EXCITE

SELF-EXCITE Self `-ex *cite ", v. t. (Elec.)

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

self-excited

self-ex cit ed ▶adjective Physics relating to or denoting a dynamo-electric machine or analogous system that generates or excites its own magnetic field.

 

Oxford Dictionary

self-excited

self-excited ▶adjective Physics relating to or denoting a machine or system that generates or excites its own magnetic field.