tolerance

plural tolerances

1. obsoleteuncountableThe ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.First known use 15th–19th c.
2. uncountableThe ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.First known use 18th c.

   Near-synonym: forbearance

   1 more example

   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.

   2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine

   Synonyms: toleration, forbearance

3. uncountableThe 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.First known use 19th c.
   1. uncountableResistance to drunkenness.

      Since he hadn't had any alcohol in years, his tolerance was very low, and it only took two drinks for him to get sloshed.

4. countableThe variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.First known use 20th c.

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

5. uncountableThe ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.First known use 20th c.

present singular third person tolerances · participle present tolerancing · participle past toleranced · past toleranced

1. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.First known use 1912