tolerance

Etymology

From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).

noun

1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
2. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
   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. 2019-7-21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine
3. (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.
4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
   Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
5. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

verb

1. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.