facility
pronunciation
How to pronounce facility in British English:
UK [fəˈsɪləti]
How to pronounce facility in American English:
US [fəˈsɪləti]
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- Noun:
- a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
- skillful performance or ability without difficulty
- a natural effortlessness
- services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose
- a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
Word Origin
- facility (n.)
- early 15c., "gentleness, lightness," from Middle French facilité "easiness, ease," from Latin facilitatem (nominative facilitas) "easiness, ease, fluency, willingness," from facilis "easy" (see facile). First in a medical book: If it be nede forto smyte [the head] wiþ a malle, be it done with esynez or facilite [transl. Guy de Chauliac's "Grande Chirurgie"] Its sense in English expanded to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease, quality of being easily done" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something" which makes the word so beloved of journalists and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872, via notion of "physical means by which (something) can be easily done."
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Example
- 1. North korea has stated it would rebuild the facility .
- 2. Specialists will guide you through the facility .
- 3. The previous record for use of the ecb deposit facility was 384bn in june 2010 .
- 4. Older machines might not have the same facility .
- 5. They have a testing facility nearby their headquarters in spain where different types of store layouts are tested .