Faculty or faculties may refer to:
Academia
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Faculty (academic staff)
Academic staff, also known as faculty (in North American usage) or academics (in British, Australia, and New Zealand usage), are vague terms that describe teachers or research staff of a school, college, university or research institute.
In Brit ...
, professors, researchers, and teachers of a given university or college (North American usage)
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Faculty (division)
A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, ...
, a large department of a university by field of study (used outside North America)
Biology
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ability
Abilities are powers an agent has to perform various Action (philosophy), actions. They include common abilities, like walking, and rare abilities, like performing a double backflip. Abilities are intelligent powers: they are guided by the person ...
of an individual
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Cognitive skill
Cognitive skills are skills of the mind, as opposed to other types of skills such as motor skills, social skills or life skills. Some examples of cognitive skills are literacy, self-reflection, logical reasoning, abstract thinking, critica ...
s, colloquially ''faculties''
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Sense
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of Stimulus (physiology), stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses were traditio ...
s or ''perceptive faculties''—such as sight, hearing or touch
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Faculty Psychology, suggests the mind is divided into sections, each assigned specific mental tasks.
Business
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Faculty (company), a British tech firm (formerly ''ASI'')
Film and television
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The Faculty'', a 1998 horror/sci-fi movie by Robert Rodriguez
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''The Faculty'' (TV series), a 1996 American sitcom
Religious law
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Faculty (canon law), a judicial instrument or warrant in Christian canon law
* A priest's right to perform
Christian liturgies
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