easement

Meanings

1. An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
2. An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
3. Easing; relief; assistance; support.
4. The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
5. Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
6. Gratification.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”) + -ment (“-ment, suffix forming nouns, usually the action or state resulting from verbs”).