facility
IPA: fʌsˈɪɫɪti
noun
- The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
- Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
- The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
- An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
- (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.
- (Scotland, law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
- (dated) Affability.
- (finance, banking) Clipping of credit facility. [(finance, banking) A financial agreement under which a creditor agrees to make an amount of credit available to a borrower, which may be borrowed on demand (a line of credit) or once certain conditions have been met.]
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Examples of "facility" in Sentences
- The Hospital has a dialysis facility.
- The facility opened on the waterfront.
- This facility is invulnerable to the fire.
- The facility is utilizable to all citizens.
- At the heart of the new facility is the gymnasium.
- The facility is inspected routinely by the government.
- The facility had a reputation of leading the way in therapeutic programming.
- Anatomical Pathology one of the specialty training programs offered by the facility.
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