facilitation

English

Etymology

From facilitate +‎ -ion. Compare Latin facilitātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˌsɪlɪˈteɪʃən/, /fəˌsɪləˈteɪʃən/

  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Hyphenation: fa‧ci‧li‧ta‧tion

Noun

facilitation (countable and uncountable, plural facilitations)

1. The act of facilitating or making easy.
2. (physiology) The process of synapses becoming more capable of transmitting the same type of signal each time certain types of sensory signals pass through sequences of these synapses.

Derived terms

• cofacilitation
• disfacilitation
• hyperfacilitation
• photofacilitation

Translations

act of facilitating

• Bulgarian: улесняване n (ulesnjavane), благоприятстване n (blagoprijatstvane)
• Finnish: helpottaminen (fi), auttaminen (fi), fasilitointi
• French: facilitation (fr) f
• German: Erleichtern n, Erleichterung (de) f
• Romanian: ușurare (ro) f, facilitare (ro) f; promovare (ro) f, încurajare (ro) f
• Russian: соде́йствие (ru) (sodéjstvije), облегче́ние (ru) (oblexčénije)
• Spanish: facilitación
• Swedish: underlätta (sv)

physiological phenomenon

• German: Bahnung (de)

French

Etymology

From faciliter +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.si.li.ta.sjɔ̃/

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• Hyphenation: fa‧ci‧li‧ta‧tion

Noun

facilitation f (plural facilitations)

1. facilitation

Further reading

• “facilitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.