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Definition of Facility

Facility

  1. The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
  2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
  3. Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
  4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
  5. That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

Facility Quotations

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
Barack Obama

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
John Cleese

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Facility Translations

facility in Norwegian is letthet

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