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FACILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
Example:
a cell phone with internet facility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("facility" is a kind of...):
service (work done by one person or group that benefits another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service
Example:
educational facilities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("facility" is a kind of...):
artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "facility"):
comfort station; convenience; public convenience; public lavatory; public toilet; restroom; toilet facility; wash room (a toilet that is available to the public)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Example:
the assembly plant is an enormous facility
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("facility" is a kind of...):
artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "facility"):
water; water supply; water system (a facility that provides a source of water)
utility (a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal)
transit; transportation; transportation system (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)
station (a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose)
source (a facility where something is available)
sewage system; sewage works; sewer system (facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage)
recreation facility; recreational facility (a public facility for recreation)
range (a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds)
grid; power grid; power system (a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region)
military installation (any facility servicing military forces)
menagerie; zoo; zoological garden (the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition)
gas system (facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service)
assembly; forum; meeting place (a public facility to meet for open discussion)
drive-in (any installation designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles)
deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)
course (facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport)
communication equipment; communication system (facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating information)
cafeteria facility ((usually plural) facilities for providing food for employees or visitors)
backroom (the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations)
athletic facility (a facility for athletic events)
arboretum; botanical garden (a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition)
airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A natural effortlessness
Example:
a happy readiness of conversation
Synonyms:
facility; readiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("facility" is a kind of...):
effortlessness (the quality of requiring little effort)
Derivation:
facile (expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Skillful performance or ability without difficulty
Example:
he was famous for his facility as an archer
Synonyms:
adeptness; adroitness; deftness; facility; quickness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("facility" is a kind of...):
skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "facility"):
touch (deftness in handling matters)
dexterity; manual dexterity; sleight (adroitness in using the hands)
Derivation:
facile (performing adroitly and without effort)
Context examples:
A shared facility providing biostatistical services.
(Biostatistics Core, NCI Thesaurus)
A storage facility of biospecimens that includes tissue samples, fluids, and molecular derivatives such as DNA, RNA, and proteins.
(Biorepository, NCI Thesaurus)
The facility which provides a setting with provisions for monitoring and delivering babies.
(Birth Facility, NCI Thesaurus)
Facilities designated Cancer Centers generally conduct a combination of basic, population sciences, and clinical research, and are encouraged to stimulate collaborative research involving more than one field of study.
(Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Licensed facilities permitted to prepare animal food with added medications.
(Medicated Animal Feed Manufacture, NCI Thesaurus)
One section of the ATC is the genome's National Institutes Sequencing Center (NISC) where the NCI sequencing and genotyping group will be located, and another part is the array facility.
(Advanced Technology Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Those facilities which administer health services to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization.
(Ambulatory Care Facility, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Researchers at the Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch (PECRB), studied 12 men and women with obesity in the facility’s metabolic unit.
(Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology, NIH)
However, when the animals were relocated to a new facility, the frequency of lesion formation decreased to almost zero.
(Researchers connect brain blood vessel lesions to intestinal bacteria, NIH)
EXAMPLE(S):Delivery of drugs from the manufacturer to a medical facility.
(Performed Product Transport, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
