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See also: tolérance

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tolerance (countable and uncountable, plural tolerances)

  1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
  2. (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.
  3. (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.]
  4. (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.
  5. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.]

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Translations

ability of the body to resist the action of a poison or infection
ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection

Verb

tolerance (third-person singular simple present tolerances, present participle tolerancing, simple past and past participle toleranced)

  1. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance. [from 1912]

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Pronunciation

Noun

tolerance f

  1. tolerance (the ability or practice of tolerating)
  2. tolerance (permitted deviation from standard)

Declension

Declension of tolerance (soft feminine)
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