facilitation
noun/fəˌsɪlɪˈteɪʃən/ · /fəˌsɪləˈteɪʃən/
Etymology From facilitate + -ion. Compare Latin facilitātiō.
1
The act of facilitating or making easy.
2
Medicine, Physiology, Sciences 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.
- Derived terms
- cofacilitation, disfacilitation, hyperfacilitation, photofacilitation