facilitation

facilitate | American Dictionary

facilitate
verb[ T ]
us/fəˈsɪl·əˌteɪt/
to make something possible or easier:
To facilitate learning, each class is no larger than 30 students.

facilitation

noun[ U ]us/fəˌsɪl·əˈteɪ·ʃən/
Somerville was charged with conspiracy and criminal facilitation.

facilitate | Business English

facilitate
verb[ T ]
uk /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/us
to help people deal with a process or reach an agreement or solution without getting directly involved in the process, discussion, etc. yourself:
An expert negotiator was brought in to facilitate the discussion.

Examples of facilitate

facilitate
Coordination problems abound, and their solutions are facilitated when players have the ability to quickly acquire expectations about fellow players' behavior.
It was designed to facilitate the combination of qualitative methods with statistical analysis.
The reports include an executive summary that facilitates a quick and comprehensive understanding of the key points addressed by the report.
The second is how children use these representations to facilitate language learning.
One way of facilitating such changes was reported to be through the employment of salaried doctors.
These findings indicate that, under conditions of reduced astrocytic coverage of neurons, diffusion is facilitated and takes place in a reduced volume.
Some of the principal roles of taxonomies are to facilitate human understanding, impart structure on an ontology and promote tenable integration.
In addition to being a marker of social cognition, gaze following and pointing play roles in everyday interactions that may specifically facilitate infants' word learning.
Technology facilitates aspects of our teaching environment and practice that make these improvements possible.
This will greatly facilitate the treatment of deformable surfaces using iterative methods.
The behavioral result is that activation in this pathway is thought to facilitate top-down goal-oriented behavior and thereby simultaneously suppress alternative nongoal-oriented behaviors.
We note that the wheeled mobile bases facilitated the creation of the locomotive structure, and thereby extended the overall workspace.
Developmentalists show that these schemas operate between language and perception, thereby facilitating semantic development.
The objective was to test trap performance in relevant contexts to facilitate straightforward use by both researchers and the public.
In contrast to the students, the instructor has to keep the discussion on track and facilitate turns.
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