facility
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
Example
“Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.”
Other meanings
A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
Related words
- cryofacility
- infacility
- facility time
- interfacility
- multifacility
- nonfacility
- correctional facility
- dining facility
- facility maintenance
- facility trip
- materials recovery facility
- N-facility
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "facilitās".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “facility” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.