## Meanings
1. A building or place provided for a particular purpose or service.
2. A feature of a piece of equipment or service that lets you do something.
3. A natural ability to do something easily and well.

## Examples
- The town built a new sports facility with a pool and courts.
- This phone has a facility for storing thousands of photos.
- She has a remarkable facility for learning languages.

## Derived Forms
- cryofacility
- infacility
- interfacility
- multifacility
- n-facility
- nonfacility

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *dʰeh₁-
- Root: facilite
- Root: facilité
- Root: facilitās

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

## AI Etymology
Facility comes from Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty. In current use, the main senses are “A building or place provided for a particular purpose or service” and “A feature of a piece of equipment or service that lets you do something”.

## Topics
- Tools, Machines & Construction

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