facility

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you

   a cell phone with internet facility

2. 2
   noun

   a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry

   the assembly plant is an enormous facility

3. 3
   noun

   a natural effortlessness

   they conversed with great facility

4. 4
   noun

   The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.

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

5. 5
   noun

   The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.

   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?

6. 6
   noun

   Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.

   The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

7. 7
   noun

   something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service

8. 8
   noun

   skillful performance or ability without difficulty

Etymology

From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.