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📚 noun • entry_id 32620

tolerance

/ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tolerancia
The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
tolerancia
The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
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…
tolerancia
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.
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