tolerance
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See also: tolérance
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).
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Noun[edit]
tolerance (countable and uncountable, plural tolerances)
- (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. [from 18th c.]
- 2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine:
- 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.
- (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. [from 19th c.]
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]
- Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.]
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Hyponyms[edit]
- (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance
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Translations[edit]
ability to endure pain or hardship — see also endurance
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ability or practice of tolerating
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ability of the body to resist the action of a poison or infection
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permitted deviation from standard
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ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection
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Verb[edit]
tolerance (third-person singular simple present tolerances, present participle tolerancing, simple past and past participle toleranced)
- To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.
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Further reading[edit]
- “tolerance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tolerance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- tolerance at OneLook Dictionary Search
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Noun[edit]
tolerance f
Declension[edit]
Declension of tolerance (soft feminine)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tolerance | tolerance |
| genitive | tolerance | tolerancí |
| dative | toleranci | tolerancím |
| accusative | toleranci | tolerance |
| vocative | tolerance | tolerance |
| locative | toleranci | tolerancích |
| instrumental | tolerancí | tolerancemi |
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