tolerance
The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
Noun 4 meanings
The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
“Near-synonym: forbearance”
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.
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.”
The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
Verb 1 meaning
To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.
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”).
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TOLERANCE at a glance
TOLERANCE has 9 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (T 1 + O 1 + L 1 + E 1 + R 1 + A 1 + N 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,428 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with tolerance
All rhymes- SINCE7
- ONCE6
- EXPERIENCE21
- CHANCE13
- PERFORMANCE20
- EVIDENCE14
- SCIENCE11
- CONFERENCE17
- DIFFERENCE19
- INSURANCE11
- DANCE8
- DISTANCE11
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