Tolerance

/ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
2. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
3. (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
5. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
6. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: forbearance

Both [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky and [David] Ben-Gurion also wrote songs of praise to the Ottoman Empire, its tolerance toward ethnic minorities in general — and to Jews in particular — as well as to the democratic changes it was undergoing.

Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.

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Word Forms

• tolerances
• tolerancing
• toleranced

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