# enables (facilitation)

to make something possible by providing a resource for it

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: lexicon  ·  Arena: enables

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [provide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-provide.supply), [possible](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-possible.potential), [resource](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-resource.material)

**Through:** The act of making something possible while providing a resource creates the condition of enabling.

**Novel properties:**
- enabling condition
- facilitated possibility
- resource-mediated access

## Examples
- The 2008 bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac enabled continued mortgage lending during the financial crisis. *(economics)*
- The invention of the printing press enabled mass production of books in 15th-century Europe. *(history)*
- CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing enables precise DNA modifications in living cells. *(biology)*

## Used by
- [allow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-allow.permission) (L17)
- [button](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-button.tool) (L17)
- [foot](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foot.body-part) (L19)
- [frozen](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-frozen.state) (L18)
- [hand](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hand.part) (L17)
- [open](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-open.spatial) (L17)

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