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Definition of 'facilitation'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) facilitation
the act or process of facilitating.

2. facilitation
the lowering of resistance in a neural pathway to an impulse resulting from previous or simultaneous stimulation.

Etymology: (1610–20)

Definition of 'facilitation'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) facilitation
the condition of being made easy (or easier)
"social facilitation is an adaptive condition"

2. (noun) facilitation
(neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential

3. (noun) facilitation
act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something

Definition of 'facilitation'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) facilitation
the act of facilitating or making easy

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