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1facility — /feuh sil i tee/, n., pl. facilities. 1. Often, facilities. a. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility …
2facility — /fəˈsɪləti / (say fuh siluhtee) noun (plural facilities) 1. something that makes possible the easier performance of any action; advantage: transport facilities; to afford someone every facility for doing something. 2. freedom from difficulty;… …
3Primary Dealer Credit Facility — On March 17, 2008, in response to the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of Bear Stearns, the Federal Reserve announced the creation of a new lending facility, the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF). Eligible borrowers include all… …
4Virtual facility — A Virtual Facility (VF) is a highly realistic digital representation of a data center (primarily). The term virtual in Virtual Facility refers to the use of the word as in Virtual Reality rather than the abstraction of computer resources as in… …
5New Castle Correctional Facility — is a 2,416 bed privately run (but state owned) prison located in New Castle, Indiana. It opened in 2002. In September 2005, the state signed a four year contract with the for profit GEO Group, Inc. of Boca Raton, Florida, to run the prison; this… …
6Information Retrieval Facility — The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), founded 2006 and located in Vienna, Austria, is a research platform for networking and collaboration for professionals in the field of information retrieval.The IRF has members in the following categories …
7Behavior modification facility — A behavior modification facility (or Youth Residential Program) is a private, residential educational institution to which parents send adolescents who are perceived as displaying antisocial behavior, in an attempt to alter their conduct. The… …
8Submarine Escape Training Facility — The Submarine Escape Training Facility, located at HMAS Stirling on Garden Island, gives submariner applicants the training required to escape from a submarine that has become disabled. [cite journal |author=Walker, R |title=The history of… …
9Versatile Toroidal Facility — The Versatile Toroidal Facility (VTF) is a research group within the Physics Research Division of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The VTF is a laboratory focused on studying the phenomenon of …
10National Hansen's Disease Museum — Coordinates: 30°11′44″N 91°07′32″W / 30.195654°N 91.125682°W / 30.195654; 91.125682 …
