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Facility

Facility Meaning & Definition
Facility Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Facility: adeptness | adroitness | deftness | installation | quickness | readiness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Facility: abandon | ability | ableness | accommodation | accouterments | adaptability | address | adeptness | adequacy | adroitness | advantage | agency | agreeability | agreeableness | aid | airmanship | alacrity | amenability | amenity | apparatus | appliance | appliances | appointments | appurtenance | appurtenances | aptitude | aptness | armament | artfulness | artisanship | artistry | atelier | barbershop | beauty parlor | beauty shop | bench | bendability | bent | biddability | bog | bravura | brightness | brilliance | butcher shop | caliber | capability | capableness | capacity | celerity | cleverness | comfort | command | company | competence | complex | compliableness | concern | control | convenience | conveniences | coordination | corporation | craft | craftsmanship | cunning | deftness | desk | dexterity | dexterousness | dextrousness | diplomacy | docility | drive | ductibility | ductility | duffel | ease | easiness | educability | efficacy | efficiency | effortlessness | elasticity | elegance | engine | enginery | equipage | equipment | establishment | expertise | expertness | extendibility | extensibility | facilities | faculty | fictility | finesse | firm | fitness | fitting | fittings | fixture | fixtures | flair | flexibility | flexility | flexuousness | flow | fluency | formativeness | furnishings | furniture | gear | genius | give | grace | gracefulness | grip | handiness | head | horsemanship | house | impedimenta | impressionability | ingeniousness | ingenuity | installation | installations | institution | intelligence | john | kit | know-how | lavatory | leaning | lightness | limberness | litheness | loft | loo | machine | machinery | malleability | marksmanship | masterfulness | mastership | mastery | materiel | mechanical aid | mechanical device | mechanism | moldability | motivation | motive power | motor | munition | munitions | organization | outfit | paraphernalia | parlor | plant | plasticity | pliability | pliancy | plumbing | poetry | poise | power plant | power source | practical ability | privy | proficiency | propensity | prowess | qualification | quickness | readiness | receptiveness | receptivity | resource | resourcefulness | responsiveness | rest room | rig | rigging | savoir-faire | savvy | seamanship | sensibility | sensitiveness | sequacity | servility | shop | skill | skillfulness | smoothness | speed | spontaneity | springiness | stock-in-trade | structure | studio | style | submissiveness | subservience | sufficiency | suppleness | susceptibility | sweatshop | swiftness | system | tackle | tact | tactfulness | talent | teachability | teachableness | technical brilliance | technical mastery | technical skill | technique | tensileness | tensility | the goods | the stuff | things | timing | toilet | tractability | tractility | trainableness | turn | unconstraint | utensils | utility | virtuosity | WC | what it takes | willingness | willowiness | wit | wizardry | work site | work space | workbench | workhouse | working space | workmanship | workplace | workroom | workshop | worktable | yieldingness

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

Facility In Webster's Dictionary

\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.''

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