facility n
1. a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" [syn: installation]
2. skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer" [syn: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness]
3. a natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen [syn: readiness]
4. services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"
5. a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility"

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. --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

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