facilitation — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act of facilitating or making easy.

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2. 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.

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   • Countable
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Noun

1. the condition of being made easy (or easier)

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   conditionstatus

   Examples

   social facilitation is an adaptive condition

2. (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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   organic phenomenon

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

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   aidassistassistancehelp