Usually means: Acceptance and respect for differences.
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  1. tolerance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tolerance: Merriam-Webster
  3. tolerance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tolerance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tolerance: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Tolerance, tolerance: Wordnik
  8. tolerance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tolerance: Wiktionary
  10. tolerance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tolerance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tolerance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tolerance: Dictionary.com
  14. tolerance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tolerance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tolerance (disambiguation), Tolerance (engineering), Tolerance (film), Tolerance (sculpture), Tolerance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tolerance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tolerance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tolerance: Rhymezone
  20. tolerance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tolerance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tolerance: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tolerance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tolerance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tolerance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  2. tolerance: Legal dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tolerance: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. tolerance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. tolerance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tolerance: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  10. tolerance: Medical dictionary
  11. Tolerance: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tolerance: Idioms

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  4. Tolerance: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tolerance: Electronics
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Definitions from Wiktionary (tolerance)

noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
noun:  (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
noun:  (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
verb:  To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

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