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say it: fuh-sil-uh-TAY-shuhn
facilitation is a noun meaning "the condition of being made easy (or easier)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the condition of being made easy (or easier)
“social facilitation is an adaptive condition”
(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
neurophysiology
act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for facilitation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.