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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

facile
     adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too
            facile a solution for so complex a problem"
     2: performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a
        facile hand" [syn: easy]
     3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to
        dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent,
         fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Facile \Fac"ile\a. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or
   made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F.
   facile. Srr Fact, and cf. Faculty.]
   1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable
      or attainable with little labor.

            Order . . . will render the work facile and
            delightful.                           --Evelyn.

   2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
      readily mastered.

            The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
                                                  --Milton.

   3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
      austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

            I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B.
                                                  Jonson.

   4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
      fault; pliant; flexible.

            Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost
            Paradise, deceived by me.             --Milton.

            This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so
            facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a
            keeper on the king's highway.         --Prof.
                                                  Wilson.

   5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
      wields a facile pen. -- Fac"ile-ly, adv. --
      Fac"ile*ness, n.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

Facile

   <language> A concurrent extension of ML from ECRC.

   http://www.ecrc.de/facile/facile_home.html.

   ["Facile: A Symmetric Integration of Concurrent and Functional
   Programming", A. Giacalone et al, Intl J Parallel Prog
   18(2):121-160, Apr 1989].

   (1994-12-01)