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English
Etymology
From Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. Doublet of faculty. Also see facile.
Pronunciation
Noun
facility (countable and uncountable, plural facilities)
- The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC: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?
- Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- 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.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
- An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
- (finance, banking) Clipping of credit facility.
- (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.
- (Scots 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.
Derived terms
Translations
dexterity, skill
- Azerbaijani: cəldlik, çeviklik, diribaşlıq, zirəklik
- Bulgarian: сръ́чност (bg) f (srǎ́čnost), уме́ние (bg) n (uménie)
- Danish: færdighed c
- Dutch: aanleg (nl) m, gemak (nl) n
- Finnish: taito (fi), taitavuus (fi)
- French: facilité (fr) f
- German: Leichtigkeit (de) f
- Irish: éascaíocht f
- Italian: facilità (it) f
- Kyrgyz: жөндөмдүүлүк (ky) (jöndömdüülük), зээндүүлүк (ky) (zeendüülük), жарамдуулук (ky) (jaramduuluk), ийкемдүүлүк (ky) (iykemdüülük)
- Luxembourgish: Facilitéit f
- Portuguese: facilidade (pt) f
- Romanian: facilitate (ro)
- Russian: ги́бкость (ru) f (gíbkostʹ), ло́вкость (ru) f (lóvkostʹ), уме́ние (ru) n (uménije)
- Spanish: facilidad (es) f
- Ukrainian: умі́ння n (umínnja)
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physical means or contrivance for doing something
- Arabic: مَرَافِق pl (marāfiq), مُنْشَأَة (ar) f (munšaʔa)
- Azerbaijani: müəssisə (az) (institutions), avadanlıq (az), təminat (az)
- Bulgarian: приспособле́ния (bg) n pl (prisposoblénija), обору́дване (bg) n (oborúdvane), съоръже́ние (bg) n (sǎorǎžénie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 設備/设备 (zh) (shèbèi)
- Czech: zařízení (cs) n, vybavení (cs) n
- Danish: facilitet c, funktion c (om maskine el.lign.)
- Dutch: inrichting (nl) f, voorziening (nl) f, faciliteit (nl) f
- Finnish: laitos (fi), fasiliteetti (fi), mukavuudet pl
- French: infrastructure (fr) f, installation (fr) f, centre (fr) m, pôle (fr) m, matériel (fr), équipement (fr)
- German: Einrichtung (de) f, Vorrichtung (de) f, Anlage (de) f
- Indonesian: fasilitas (id)
- Irish: deis (ga) f
- Italian: struttura f, mezzo m, strumento m
- Japanese: 施設 (ja) (しせつ, shisetsu)
- Korean: 시설(施設) (ko) (siseol)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fasilitet m
- Nynorsk: fasilitet m
- Portuguese: instalação (pt) m
- Russian: обору́дование (ru) n (oborúdovanije), приспособле́ния (ru) n pl (prisposoblénija), аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), зда́ния (ru) n pl (zdánija) (buildings), учрежде́ния (ru) n pl (učreždénija) (institutions), удо́бства (ru) n pl (udóbstva) (amenities)
- Scottish Gaelic: goireas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: infrastruktura (sh), uređaji m pl
- Slovak: zariadenie n, vybavenie n
- Spanish: instalación (es) m, material (es)
- Ukrainian: обла́днання n (obládnannja), апарату́ра (uk) f (aparatúra), інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
- Urdu: سُہُولَت f (suhūlat)
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