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tolerance
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See also: tolérance
English
Etymology
From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
- (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
Audio (California): (file)
- (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
Noun
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.]
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance
Derived terms
- aerotolerance
- autotolerance
- barotolerance
- Byzantine fault tolerance
- chaotolerance
- chronotolerance
- crosstolerance
- cryotolerance
- halotolerance
- heterotolerance
- homotolerance
- house of tolerance
- hypertolerance
- immunotolerance
- nontolerance
- osmotolerance
- phototolerance
- pseudotolerance
- psychrotolerance
- radiotolerance
- thermotolerance
- tolerance break
- trypanotolerance
- xenotolerance
- xerotolerance
- zero tolerance
Related terms
Translations
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
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.
References
Further reading
- “tolerance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tolerance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “tolerance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
tolerance f
Declension
Declension of tolerance (soft feminine)
Related terms
adjectives
- toleranční
- tolerantní
verbs
Further reading
- “tolerance”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “tolerance”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “tolerance”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
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