FromMiddle Frenchtolerance, fromLatintolerantia(“endurance”), fromtolerans, present participle ofLatintolerō(“endure”).

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tolerance (countable anduncountable,pluraltolerances)

1. (uncountable,obsolete) The ability toendurepain orhardship;endurance.[15th–19th c.]
2. (uncountable) Theability or practice oftolerating; an acceptance of or patience with thebeliefs, opinions orpractices 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, itstolerance 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) toresist the action of apoison, to cope with adangerousdrug or tosurviveinfection by anorganism.[from 19th c.]
4. (countable) Thevariation ordeviation from astandard, especially themaximumpermitted variation in anengineeringmeasurement.[from 20th c.]

   Our customers can generally accept ten times thetolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.

5. (uncountable) The ability of the body toaccept atissuegraft withoutrejection.[from 20th c.]

• intolerance

• (deviation from a standard)fault tolerance

tolerance (third-person singular simple presenttolerances,present participletolerancing,simple past and past participletoleranced)

1. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

•  tolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “tolerance”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tolerance”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• “tolerance”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

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• IPA^(key):[ˈtolɛrant͡sɛ]

tolerance f

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

• “tolerance”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “tolerance”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989