facilitation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the condition of being made easy (or easier)

   social facilitation is an adaptive condition

2. 2
   noun

   act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something

3. 3
   noun

   (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

4. 4
   noun

   The act of facilitating or making easy.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From facilitate + -ion. Compare Latin facilitātiō.