Meaning

• 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.

• 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.