facility — ODE

facility /fəˈsɪlɪti

▸ noun

(plural facilities)

1 a place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose:

cooking facilities

facilities for car parking

a manufacturing facility.

▪ a special feature of a service or machine, which offers the opportunity to do or benefit from something:

an overdraft facility.

2 [usually in singular] a natural ability to do or learn something well and easily:

he had a facility for languages.

▪ [mass noun] absence of difficulty or effort:

the pianist played with great facility.

– ORIGIN mid 16th century (denoting the means or unimpeded opportunity for doing something): from French facilité or Latin facilitas, from facilis ‘easy’ (see facile).