facilitation (n.)

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

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

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