tolerance

UK /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/ US /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
noun 5verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

2

The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.

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.

3

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

The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.

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

5

The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

verb

1

To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

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