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countable and uncountable, plural tolerances
(uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. quotations examples
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 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine
(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. examples
(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. examples
(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. examples
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. examples