excitation vs upset

excitation

noun
  • The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. 

  • The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation 

  • The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced. 

  • A transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule to an excited state by the absorption of a quantum of energy; the opposite of relaxation 

upset

noun
  • Disturbance or disruption. 

  • An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U. 

  • The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. 

  • An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. 

  • An overturn. 

  • An upset stomach. 

adj
  • Angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. 

verb
  • To be upset or knocked over. 

  • To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. 

  • To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • To tip or overturn (something). 

  • To defeat unexpectedly. 

  • To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. 

  • To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). 

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