Enablement

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Enablement can refer to:

1. Any approach which provides means or opportunity.
2. A patent law requirement, see sufficiency of disclosure.
3. Human enhancement by applying emerging technologies to modify human capacities. Zack Lynch, managing director of NeuroInsights, recommended at an AAAS workshop,^[1] the term “enablement” as a replacement for the current buzz-word “enhancement” after noting that the line between therapy and enhancement is particularly faint and subjective. He believes the term enhancement is already politically charged in both its meaning and use among science policy players. He sees no hard line between “therapy” and “enhancement”; instead, there is a range of capacities already in normal distribution among the population, and enablement refers to maximizing each person’s latent potential.
4. A connection between two people where there is some kind of physical attraction and where cuddling in bed for facilitating emotional support for one or both parties occurs. Often enablements take place after one or both parties have been in long term relationships. It is common in enablements for one or both parties to have low libidos (usually because of post relationship bewilderment), and hence why cuddling is the preferred form of physical contact which, in turn, leads to emotional uplift. Thus, one or both parties is enabled in some way without forming a deeper connection, i.e., a relationship. Women often project falsely that the enablement is a stepping stone to a full-blown relationship. Men understand the enablement is not of this nature.^{[citation needed]}

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• e-enablement, the transformation of a business system or process to make it streamlined and render it accessible via the Internet
• Supplier enablement, the process of electronically connecting suppliers to a company's supply chain