Facility

[fa·cil·i·ty]

Facility is a noun with several different meanings. Often, as in "storage facility," it's a place designed for a specific use, but it can also mean an effortlessness or ease with something.

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The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

Noun
a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility"

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services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"

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a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"

Noun
a natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen

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skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"

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The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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

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

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Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

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


Facility

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.
. 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.
4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.
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. -- 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 bunker, 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 obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty."

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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Usage Examples

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

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