Facilitation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Facilitation \Fa*cil`i*ta"tion\, n.
     The act of facilitating or making easy.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  facilitation
       n 1: the condition of being made easy (or easier); "social
            facilitation is an adaptive condition"
       2: (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: act of assisting or making easier the progress or
          improvement of something