FACILITATION

facilitation

(noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something

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) the condition of being made easy (or easier); “social facilitation is an adaptive condition”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

facilitation (countable and uncountable, plural facilitations)

The act of facilitating or making easy.

(physiology) 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.

Source: Wiktionary


Fa*cil`i*ta"tion, n.

Definition: The act of facilitating or making easy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(adjective) free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; “he landed a clean left on his opponent’s cheek”; “a clean throw”; “the neat exactness of the surgeon’s knife”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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