Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of making easy or easier.
- n. The state of being made easy or easier.
- n. Physiology The process of lowering the threshold for propagation of the action potential of a neuron, especially by repeated use of a neural pathway or the summation of two or more subthreshold impulses.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of facilitating or making easy.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of facilitating or making easy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of facilitating or making easy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the condition of being made easy (or easier)
- n. act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
- 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
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.”
“We could now ask for the first time: Was cAMP directly involved in facilitation?”
“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.”
“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.”
“In the third session, we talked about facilitation, aka Hack Jam 101, for our fellow MOUSE Corps students.”
“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.”
“Open teaching is described as the facilitation of learning experiences that are open, transparent, collaborative, and social.”
“What are the molecular steps that switch on long-term facilitation and, once switched on, how is it maintained?”
“The requirement for transcription in long-term facilitation explained why long-term memory requires the synthesis of new proteins.”
Lists
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EN - academic vocabulary
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A new vocabulary
achievement gap, barriers, guidance, advocacy, benchmarks, boundaries, equity, microskills, self-disclosure, antiracist, facilitation, experiential and 41 more...
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