facility

Betekenis

1. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
2. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
3. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
4. An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
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.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fəˈsɪlɪti/

Etimologie

From Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. Doublet of faculty. Also see facile.