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Facility

noun

(pl. facilities)

A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry. Synonym: installation.

Skillful performance or ability without difficulty. Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness. "He was famous for his facility as an archer"

A natural effortlessness. Synonym: readiness. "A happy readiness of conversation"

Something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service. "Toilet facilities" , "Educational facilities"

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

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"Facility" Quotes from Famous Books

... ascertain, so far as may be compatible with professional rules, how far my clients are acquainted with documents alleged or imagined to be in existence, and how far their conduct might be guided by desire to afford every reasonable facility?" ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... the discovery of the incipient causes of madness, by the facility it afforded us for the dissection and examination of the minutest portions of the ...

— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... and hours of labour. Identical theories and demands, preferred simultaneously in Austria, Germany, France, England, and America, must be largely due to the force of example operating through the modern facility of communication. A universal movement in favour of shorter hours would seem best fitted to secure the amelioration of the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. • Various

... between the two women. After Mercedes had freely taught Saxon the loose-wristed facility of playing accompaniments on the ukulele, she proposed an exchange. Her time was past, she said, for such frivolities, and she offered the instrument for the breakfast cap of which Saxon had made ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... and the affair was hushed. I was obliged, however, to walk circumspectly, and saw my companion the prince very seldom, who was prowling about every day, quite unconcerned about his safety. He was every day a new man, however, and needed not to be alarmed at any danger; for such a facility had he in disguising himself that, if it had not been for a password which we had between us, for the purposes of recognition, I never could have known ...

— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg

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