facilitate
v.
make easy, make easier; assist forward, promote, expedite
Facilitation
The term facilitation is broadly used to describe any activity which makes easy the tasks of others. For example:
Facilitation is used in business and organisational settings to ensure the designing and running of successful meetings.
Neural facilitation in neuroscience, is the increase in postsynaptic potential evoked by a 2nd impulse.
Ecological facilitation describes how an organism profits from the presence of another. Examples are nurse plants, which provide shade for new seedlings or saplings (e.g. using an orange tree to provide shade for a newly planted coffee plant), or plants providing shelter from wind chill in arctic environments.
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facilitate
Verb
1. make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge"
(synonym) ease, alleviate
(hypernym) help, assist, aid
(derivation) facilitation
2. be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents"
(synonym) help
(hypernym) serve
(derivation) facilitation
3. physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response); "The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse"
(hypernym) cause, do, make
(derivation) facilitation
facilitare
v.
facilitate, make easy, promote, expedite
facilitar
v.
facilitate, ease, expedite; issue; furnish, supply; offer