tolerance

== English == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English toleraunce, borrowed from Old French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerāns, present participle of, and participial adjective from Latin tolerō (“to endure”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/ (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/ (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/, [ˈtɔ̟l.ə.ɹəns] === Noun === 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.] Synonym: toleration Near-synonym: forbearance (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.] (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.] ==== Antonyms ==== intolerance ==== Hyponyms ==== (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === 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. [from 1912] === References === tolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Further reading === “tolerance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tolerance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “tolerance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === coeternal, neorectal == Czech == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈtolɛrant͡sɛ] === Noun === tolerance f tolerance (the ability or practice of tolerating) tolerance (permitted deviation from standard) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “tolerance”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 “tolerance”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 “tolerance”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026