facility

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Etymology

From Middle French facilité.

Noun

facility (plural facilities)

1. Ease in learning or in doing something; proficiency

   The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

2. An installation, contrivance, or other thing which facilitates something; a place for doing something.

   Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.

Derived terms

• correctional facility

Translations

ease in learning or doing something

Dutch: aanleg (nl) m., gemak (nl) n. Finnish: taitavuus (fi) French: facilité (fr) f. German: Leichtigkeit (de) f. Italian: facilità (it) f.

Luxembourgish: Facilitéit (lb) f. Portuguese: facilidade (pt) f. Romanian: facilitate (ro) Spanish: facilidad (es) f.

an installation, contrivance

Dutch: inrichting (nl) f., voorziening (nl) f., faciliteit (nl) f. Finnish: laitos (fi) French: infrastructure (fr) f., installation (fr) f. German: Einrichtung (de) f., Vorrichtung (de) f. Italian: struttura f., mezzo m., strumento m.

Portuguese: instalação (pt) m., infra-estrutura (pt) f. Scottish Gaelic: goireas (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: infrastruktura (sh) Spanish: instalación (es) m.