Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or action of facilitating.
  • noun The lowering of the threshold for propagation of an action potential of a neuron.
  • noun The enhancement of a neuron to a stimulus, as a result of prior repeated stimulation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of facilitating or making easy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of facilitating or making easy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of facilitating or making easy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the condition of being made easy (or easier)
  • noun act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
  • 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

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Examples

  • Ganapathy, the general secretary, the supreme leader of the Maoists made it clear recently that his war against the government would only intensify if it doesn't stop what he calls the facilitation of the plunder of Chhattisgarh.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006

  • We could now ask for the first time: Was cAMP directly involved in facilitation?

    Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography 2001

  • Clarify the definition of facilitation (i.e.,: from the Latin word, "facil" meaning to make easy) and that, as extension workers, we all need effective skills for helping, guiding or facilitating a group or group process.

    Chapter 6 1982

  • Before we leave this two-week module on what facilitation is and is not, I wanted to add some thoughts about different sorts of facilitation, based on some of the people I work with and what I think are interestingly evolved perspectives on the subject. we don't even use the word facilitation - rather, we speak of "hosts" that help create the context for generative conversations.

    unknown title 2008

  • The U.K. law, for instance, covers corruption of commercial as well as government officials and doesn't allow for so-called facilitation payments, effectively minor bribes.

    U.K. Outlines Bribery Rules Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

  • In the third session, we talked about facilitation, aka Hack Jam 101, for our fellow MOUSE Corps students.

    Zainab Oni: On Becoming A Hacker Zainab Oni 2012

  • And it's been very instrumental in leading WTO members to negotiate within this Doha round, a specific chapter about trade facilitation, which is streamlining customer procedures, counselor fees, pre-shipment expansion, licensing requirements.

    Transcript: Pascal Lamy 2010

  • And it's been very instrumental in leading WTO members to negotiate within this Doha round, a specific chapter about trade facilitation, which is streamlining customer procedures, counselor fees, pre-shipment expansion, licensing requirements.

    Get Briefed: Pascal Lamy 2010

  • And it's been very instrumental in leading WTO members to negotiate within this Doha round, a specific chapter about trade facilitation, which is streamlining customer procedures, counselor fees, pre-shipment expansion, licensing requirements.

    Get Briefed: Pascal Lamy 2010

  • And it's been very instrumental in leading WTO members to negotiate within this Doha round, a specific chapter about trade facilitation, which is streamlining customer procedures, counselor fees, pre-shipment expansion, licensing requirements.

    Transcript: Pascal Lamy 2010

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