English dictionary
tolerance
nounPronunciation
/ˈtɒləɹəns/
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
- The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- 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.
- The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
Example sentences
Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.