《柯林斯》

enabling technology：

technology that enables the user to perform a task or to improve his or her overall performance: e.g. the internet 能使用户完成一项任务或提高用户总体能力的技术；使能技术；促成技术

Broadband's real selling point is that it is an enabling technology, providing access to what we want.

A key enabling technology is the fuel cells that generate the electricity.

enabling在此既不是动名词，也不是现在分词，而是及物动词enable的现在分词enabling演变而来的形容词。《柯林斯》已经收录了形容词enabling这个词条：

enabling ：adjective

providing the power, means, opportunity, or authority to allow someone to do something

词例：

• enabling act

• enabling legislation

• enabling technology