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facility
What does facility mean?
facility (noun): a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use facility in a sentence?
- The assembly plant is an enormous facility. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce facility?
/fəˈsɪlɪti/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does facility come from?
From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of facility?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “facility” mean?
a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Right! That's what “facility” means.
the beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life
Not quite: that's what culture means.
an opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent
Not quite: that's what hole means.
a conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention
Not quite: that's what idea means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “facility”?
organization
Not quite: organization means something else.
independence
Not quite: independence means something else.
neighborhood
Not quite: neighborhood means something else.
installation
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