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Meaning of 'facility' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Facility [ n.]
- The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
- Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
- Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
- Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
- That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

Meaning of 'facility' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . facility [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
Example in sentence:
  • a cell phone with internet facility
Meaning (2):
- a natural effortlessness
Example in sentence:
  • a happy readiness of conversation;
  • they conversed with great facility
Meaning (3):
- something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service
Example in sentence:
  • catering facilities;
  • educational facilities;
  • toilet facilities
Meaning (4):
- skillful performance or ability without difficulty
Example in sentence:
  • he was famous for his facility as an archer;
  • his quick adeptness was a product of good design
Meaning (5):
- a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Example in sentence:
  • the assembly plant is an enormous facility

Nearby Words:

fac facade face faced facet facete faceted facetiae faceting facetious

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