Usually means: Acceptance and respect for differences.
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  1. tolerance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tolerance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tolerance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. tolerance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. tolerance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tolerance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tolerance: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. tolerance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tolerance (disambiguation), Tolerance (engineering), Tolerance (film), Tolerance (sculpture), Tolerance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tolerance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tolerance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. tolerance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. tolerance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Tolerance: Cybernetics and Systems
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Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
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  9. tolerance: Medical dictionary
  10. Tolerance: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. tolerance: Idioms

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  4. Tolerance: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

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  1. tolerance: Electronics
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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