Facility

Quick meaning: Facility is a noun meaning A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.

Meaning

A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.

More Meanings

1. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
2. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
3. (finance, banking) Clipping of credit facility.
4. (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.
5. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
6. (Scots law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
7. (dated) Affability.

Example Sentences

The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.

As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?

Word Forms

• facilities

Synonyms for facility

Depending on context, synonyms include ease, knack, ability, technique, aptitude, capacity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include privy, deftness, adroitness, can, adeptness, proficiency.

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