tolerance
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
The English word “tolerance” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
- The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- 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.
- Resistance to drunkenness.
- The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
verb
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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