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fac⋅ul⋅ty

  [fak-uhl-tee]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
2. one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties.
3. an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing.
4. exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management.
5. Education.
a. the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.
b. one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.
c. the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.
6. the members of a learned profession: the medical faculty.
7. a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.: The police were given the faculty to search the building.
8. Ecclesiastical. a dispensation, license, or authorization.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME faculte < AF, MF < L facultāt- (s. of facultās) ability, power, equiv. to facil(is) easy (see facile ) + -tāt- -ty 2 ; cf. facility

Synonyms:
1. capacity, aptitude, knack, potential, skill. See ability.
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Word Origin & History

faculty 
1382, "ability, means, resources," from O.Fr. faculté, from L. facultatem (nom. facultas) "power, ability, wealth," from *facli-tat-s, from facilis (see facile). Academic sense was probably the earliest in Eng. (attested in Anglo-L. from 1184), on notion of "ability in knowledge." Originally each department was a faculty; the use in ref. to the whole teaching staff of a college dates from 1767.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: fac·ul·ty
Pronunciation: 'fak-&l-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
1 a : an inherentcapability, power, or function faculty of hearing> faculty> b : one of the powers of the mind formerly held by psychologists to form a basisfor the explanation of all mental phenomena
2 a : the members of a profession b : the teaching and administrative staff and those members of the administrationhaving academic rank in an educational institution
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

faculty fac·ul·ty (fāk'əl-tē)
n.
A natural or specialized power of a living organism.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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