Enable has a number of senses, most of which are some variant on allowing someone (or something, such as enabling cookies on a computer) to do something.

ENABLE definition: 1. to make someone able to do something, or to make something possible: 2. to allow or make it…. Learn more.

To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to repair the heart.

en•a•ble (en ā′ bəl), v.t., -bled, -bling. to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize: This document will enable him to pass through the enemy lines unmolested. to make …

ENABLE definition: to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to: Students with vision impairments are enabled in the classroom with magnifiers and screen reader software. See …

To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. The hot sun enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness.

These choices are part of what enabled the company to be successful. The proposed tax will enable [= facilitate] the hiring of more police officers. Be sure to enable your computer's firewall.