# tolerance
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
* (US) IPA: /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
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* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈtɔl.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.]
** 2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine: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.
* (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.]
    Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
* (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

* aerotolerance
* aerotolerance
* autotolerance
* autotolerance
* barotolerance
* barotolerance
* Byzantine fault tolerance
* chaotolerance
* chaotolerance
* chronotolerance
* chronotolerance
* crosstolerance
* crosstolerance
* cryotolerance
* cryotolerance
* halotolerance
* halotolerance
* heterotolerance
* heterotolerance
* homotolerance
* homotolerance
* house of tolerance
* hypertolerance
* hypertolerance
* immunotolerance
* immunotolerance
* nontolerance
* nontolerance
* osmotolerance
* osmotolerance
* phototolerance
* phototolerance
* pseudotolerance
* psychrotolerance
* psychrotolerance
* radiotolerance
* radiotolerance
* thermotolerance
* thermotolerance
* tolerance break
* trypanotolerance
* trypanotolerance
* xenotolerance
* xenotolerance
* xerotolerance
* xerotolerance
* zero tolerance

#### Related terms

* tolerability
* tolerable
* tolerant
* tolerate
* toleration

#### 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.

### References

* tolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Further reading

* “tolerance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “tolerance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “tolerance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* coeternal, neorectal

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtolɛrant͡sɛ]

### Noun

tolerance f
* tolerance (the ability or practice of tolerating)
* tolerance (permitted deviation from standard)

#### Related terms

* toleranční
* tolerantní
* tolerovat

### Further reading

* “tolerance”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “tolerance”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989