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From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/
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.]
- (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance
- 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
ability to endure pain or hardship — see also endurance
- Arabic: تَحَمُّل m (taḥammul)
- Bengali: সহন (bn) (śohon)
- Bulgarian: търпимост (bg) f (tǎrpimost)
- Finnish: kestokyky, kestävyys (fi)
- Georgian: გამძლეობა (gamʒleoba), ამტანობა (amṭanoba), ამტანიანობა (amṭanianoba), ტოლერანტობა (ṭoleranṭoba)
- German: Toleranz (de) f
- Greek: ανοχή (el) f (anochí),
- Irish: fulaingt f
- Italian: tolleranza (it) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: toleranse m
- Persian: بردباری (fa) (bordbâri)
- Romanian: rezistență (ro) f, toleranță (ro) f
- Russian: терпе́ние (ru) n (terpénije)
- Spanish: tolerancia (es) f
- Telugu: సహనం (te) (sahanaṁ)
- Turkish: hoşgörü (tr), müsamaha (tr), tolerans (tr), anlayış (tr)
ability or practice of tolerating
- Arabic: تَسَامُح m (tasāmuḥ)
- Armenian: հանդուրժողականություն (hy) (handuržoġakanutʻyun)
- Bengali: ক্ষমা (bn) (khoma)
- Bulgarian: толерантност (bg) f (tolerantnost)
- Catalan: tolerància (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: snášenlivost f, tolerance (cs) f
- Danish: tolerance (da)
- Dutch: verdraagzaamheid (nl) f, tolerantie (nl) f
- Esperanto: tolereco
- Finnish: suvaitsevaisuus (fi)
- French: tolérance (fr) f
- Georgian: შემწყნარებლობა (šemc̣q̇narebloba), ტოლერანტულობა (ṭoleranṭuloba)
- German: Toleranz (de) f
- Greek: ανοχή (el) f (anochí), ανεκτικότητα (el) f (anektikótita)
- Ancient: ἀνοχή f (anokhḗ)
- Hebrew: סובלנות (he)
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: tolleranza (it) f
- Japanese: 寛容 (ja) (かんよう, kan'yō)
- Kazakh: толеранттық (toleranttyq), төзімділік (tözımdılık), тағаттылық (tağattylyq), шыдамдылық (şydamdylyq), толеранттылық (toleranttylyq), көнбістік (könbıstık)
- Latvian: tolerance f
- Lithuanian: tolerancija (lt) f, pakantumas m, pakanta f
- Malayalam: സഹിഷ്ണുത (ml) (sahiṣṇuta)
- Norman: toléthance f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Persian: مدارامنشی (modârâ-maneši), رواداری (fa) (ravâdâri)
- Polish: tolerancja (pl) f
- Portuguese: tolerância (pt) f
- Romanian: toleranță (ro) f
- Russian: терпи́мость (ru) f (terpímostʹ), толера́нтность (ru) f (tolerántnostʹ), толера́стия (ru) f (tolerástija) (derogatory, used especially by ultranationalists)
- Samogitian: tuolerancėjė f
- Serbo-Croatian: tolerancija (sh) f, podnošljivost (sh) f, trpeljivost (sh) f
- Spanish: tolerancia (es) f
- Swedish: tolerans (sv) c, fördragsamhet (sv) c
- Telugu: సహనం (te) (sahanaṁ)
- Turkish: tolerans (tr)
- Ukrainian: терпи́мість f (terpýmistʹ), толера́нтність (uk) f (tolerántnistʹ)
ability of the body to resist the action of a poison or infection
permitted deviation from standard
- Bulgarian: толеранс (bg) m (tolerans)
- Chinese:
- Danish: tolerance (da)
- Finnish: toleranssi (fi)
- French: tolérance (fr) f
- German: Toleranz (de) f
- Greek: ανοχή (el) f (anochí)
- Norwegian:
- Romanian: toleranță (ro) f, acceptare (ro) f
- Russian: до́пуск (ru) m (dópusk)
- Spanish: tolerancia (es) f
- Swedish: tolerans (sv) c
- Turkish: tolerans (tr)
ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection
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.
- “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.
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