Associations to the word «Facilitation»

Wiktionary

FACILITATION, noun. The act of facilitating or making easy.

Dictionary definition

FACILITATION, noun. The condition of being made easy (or easier); "social facilitation is an adaptive condition".
FACILITATION, 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.
FACILITATION, noun. Act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.