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Meaning of 'facility'
Meaning of 'facility' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Facility 
[ n.]
- The quality of being easily performed; freedom from
difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. [ n.]- 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]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
- a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
Example in sentence:
- a cell phone with internet facility
Meaning (2):
- something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service
- 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 (3):
- skillful performance or ability without difficulty
- 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 (4):
- a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
- 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
Meaning (5):
- a natural effortlessness
- a natural effortlessness
Example in sentence:
- a happy readiness of conversation;
- they conversed with great facility
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