tolerance
See also: tolérance
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
Audio (US) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/
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.]
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance
Derived terms edit
- aerotolerance
- aerotolerance
- autotolerance
- autotolerance
- barotolerance
- barotolerance
- Byzantine fault tolerance
- chaotolerance
- chaotolerance
- chronotolerance
- chronotolerance
- crosstolerance
- crosstolerance
- cryotolerance
- cryotolerance
- halotolerance
- halotolerance
- heterotolerance
- heterotolerance
- homotolerance
- homotolerance
- hypertolerance
- hypertolerance
- immunotolerance
- immunotolerance
- nontolerance
- nontolerance
- osmotolerance
- osmotolerance
- phototolerance
- phototolerance
- pseudotolerance
- psychrotolerance
- psychrotolerance
- radiotolerance
- radiotolerance
- thermotolerance
- thermotolerance
- tolerance break
- trypanotolerance
- trypanotolerance
- xenotolerance
- xenotolerance
- xerotolerance
- xerotolerance
- zero tolerance
Related terms edit
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.
References edit
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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
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 |