facility
单词辨析：
指与生俱来的学习或做某事的能力。
He has an amazing facility for mental arithmetic.
他有惊人的心算能力。
She plays the violin with surprising facility.
她拉小提琴的天赋令人惊讶。
指擅长做某事的才能。
She has a great faculty for adapting new environments.
她适应新环境的能力很强。
He had the faculty of dealing with tough problems.
他有处理棘手问题的能力。
指虽已具备但尚未发挥出来的能力。
She has the potential to become an interpreter.
她有潜力成为一名口译工作者。
He is a young singer with great potential.
他是一名很有潜力的年轻歌手。
主要指安装在较大型机器上的器件，也常指家用电器或器具。
measuring/portable appliances
测量器/便携式装置
an appliance circuit/outlet
仪表线路/设备插口
Electrical appliances are very popular in China.
电器在中国非常普及。
My kitchen is equipped with modern appliances.
我家厨房安装了现代化设备。
指用于特定目的的器械或成套工具。
a piece of lab apparatus
一件实验室仪器
clamping/control/counting apparatus
夹具/控制装置/计数工具
We need medical apparatus.
我们需要医疗器械。
Divers have special breathing apparatus.
潜水员有专门的呼吸装置。
普通用词，可指代任何具有某一特定用途的物体或器具；表示“用于…的装置”时，常后接介词 for。
a safety/water-saving device
安全/节水装置
This device lights gas-stoves.
这是煤气炉的点火装置。
通常用复数形式，表示为某种目的而提供的设施、设备等。
kitchen/toilet facilities
厨房设备/卫生间设施
The Holiday Inn has its own leisure facilities.
这家假日酒店拥有自己的休闲设施。
相关例句：
The new commands provide a facility to report and change the configurable properties of a BAR file.
新命令提供一个工具，用来报告和更改BAR文件的可配置属性。
It is very useful to have an overdraft facility
有透支功能用处很大。
The facility and design of the trade show are great.
展览会的设备和设计好极了。
Smell is a very basic sense but humans have lost much of the facility to use it properly.
嗅觉是一种非常基本的官能，但人类已经丧失了恰当使用这种官能的大部分能力。
A forms designer provides design-time services and a facility for developers to design forms.
窗体设计器提供了设计时服务和一个供开发人员设计窗体的工具。
This report mainly introduces the theory and facility for measuring solar infrared spectrum of window region.
文章主要介绍了红外窗区太阳光谱测量的实验装置，观测方法和数据处理方法。