facility

Noun

1. 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.
   • A wide range of facilities is available at the sports center, including a weight room and saunas.
   • As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities. - 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
2. A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
3. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
   • 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? - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John...
   • Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write...
4. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
   • The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

   Synonyms: ease knack ability technique aptitude capacity craft capability competency competence cunning dexterity facility hand list prowess moxie potential proficiency skill talent tekkers touch

5. Clipping of credit facility.
6. A toilet.
7. A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
8. Affability.