| facilitate | (v) make easier, Syn. alleviate, ease, Example: you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge |
| facilitate | (v) increase the likelihood of (a response), Example: The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse |
| facilitation | (n) the condition of being made easy (or easier), Example: social facilitation is an adaptive condition |
| facilitation | (n) (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 | (n) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something |
| facilitative | (adj) freeing from difficulty or impediment, Example: facilitative changes in the economic structure |
| facilitator | (n) someone who makes progress easier |
| facilitatory | (adj) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity |
| Facilitate | v. t. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| facilitated | adj. freed from difficulty or impediment. Contrasted with |
| Facilitation | n. The act of facilitating or making easy. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| facilitative | adj. freeing from difficulty or impediment; |
| facilitator | n. someone who makes progress easier. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| facilitatory | adj. (Med.) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |