Definitions for: Facility


[n] a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility"
[n] services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"
[n] a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"
[n] a natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen
[n] skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"



Webster (1913) Definition: Fa*cil"i*ty, n.; pl. Facilities. [L. facilitas, fr.
facilis easy: cf. F. facilit?. See Facile.]
1. The quality of being easily performed; freedom from
difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

The facility with which government has been
overturned in France. --Burke.

2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or
use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in
executing works of art.

3. Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; --
usually in a bad sense; pliancy.

It is a great error to take facility for good
nature. --L'Estrange.

4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

Offers himself to the visits of a friend with
facility. --South.

5. That which promotes the ease of any action or course of
conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the
plural; as, special facilities for study.

Syn: Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance;
condescension; affability.

Usage: Facility, Expertness, Readiness. These words
have in common the idea of performing any act with
ease and promptitude. Facility supposes a natural or
acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness
and ease. Expertness is the kind of facility acquired
by long practice. Readiness marks the promptitude with
which anything is done. A merchant needs great
facility in dispatching business; a banker, great
expertness in casting accounts; both need great
readiness in passing from one employment to another.
``The facility which we get of doing things by a
custom of doing, makes them often pass in us without
our notice.'' --Locke. ``The army was celebrated for
the expertness and valor of the soldiers.'' ``A
readiness to obey the known will of God is the surest
means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty.''

Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, installation, quickness, readiness

See Also: airfield, arboretum, artefact, artifact, assembly, athletic facility, backroom, botanical garden, cafeteria facility, comfort station, communication equipment, communication system, convenience, course, deposit, depository, dexterity, drive-in, effortlessness, field, flying field, forum, gas system, grid, landing field, manual dexterity, meeting place, menagerie, military installation, power grid, power system, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, range, recreation facility, recreational facility, repository, restroom, service, services, sewage system, sewage works, sewer system, skillfulness, sleight, source, station, toilet facility, touch, transit, transportation, transportation system, utility, wash room, water, water supply, water system, zoo, zoological garden

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