tolerance
To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.
Noun
- The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
- The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- 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...
Synonyms: toleration forbearance
- 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.
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(uncountable) Resistance to drunkenness.
- Since he hadn't had any alcohol in years, his tolerance was very low, and it only took two drinks for him to get sloshed.
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- 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.
- The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English toleraunce, borrowed from Old French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerāns, present participle of, and participial adjective from Latin tolerō (“to endure”).
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intolerance tolerability tolerable tolerant tolerate toleration
Derived
aerotolerance autotolerance barotolerance Byzantine fault tolerance chaotolerance chronotolerance crosstolerance cryotolerance halotolerance heterotolerance homotolerance house of tolerance hypertolerance immunotolerance nontolerance osmotolerance paradox of tolerance phototolerance pseudotolerance psychrotolerance radiotolerance thermotolerance tolerance break trypanotolerance
Verb
- To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.