Definition of "facility" in English

noun

1. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.

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

2. A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.

3. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.

4. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.

   • The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

5. (finance, banking) Clipping of credit facility.

6. (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.

7. (Scots law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.

8. (dated) Affability.