tolerance

1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.obsoleteuncountable

2. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.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."uncountable

3. (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.uncountable

4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.Examples: "Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations."countable

5. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.uncountable