Definition of FACILITATION

facilitation

Plural: facilitations

Noun

  • the condition of being made easy (or easier)
    • "social facilitation is an adaptive condition"
  • (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
  • act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
  • The act of facilitating or making easy.
  • The process of synapses becoming more capable of transmitting the same type of signal each time certain types of sensory signals pass through sequences of these synapses.

Origin / Etymology

From facilitate + -ion. Compare Latin facilitātiō.

Scrabble Score: 17

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Words With Friends Score: 20

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