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Machinery vs Facility - What's the difference?

machinery | facility |

As nouns the difference between machinery and facility

is that machinery is the machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively while facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

machinery

English

Noun

  • The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
  • The working parts of a machine as a group.
  • The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
  • (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

    • Related terms

    * machinist

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    facility

    English

    Noun

    (facilities)
  • The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
  • *, II.12:
    • Clytomachus'' affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of ''Carneades'', what opinion he was of. Why hath ''Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
  • Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
    • The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
    • , chapter=1, title= Internal Combustion , passage=As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities .}}
  • (North America, in the plural) A toilet.

    • Derived terms

    * correctional facility