Meaning of tolerance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry
4. The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
   uncountable
5. 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
6. 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.
   uncountable
7. The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement
8. The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
   countable
9. The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection
10. The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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