tolerance

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The ability to endure pain or hardship

   The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

2. 2

   The ability or practice of tolerating

   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 was undergoing.
3. 3

   The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope…

   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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   1. 4

      The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in…

      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.
   2. 5

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

   3. 6

      To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

The neighborhood

• antonymintolerance
• neighborintolerance
• neighbortolerability
• neighbortolerable
• neighbortolerant
• neighbortolerate
• neighbortoleration