tolerance

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  1. noun The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.
  2. noun Leeway for variation from a standard.
  3. noun The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.

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  • There is a huge difference between "tolerance" - as Morris describes Jesus 'actions, and —  The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum
  • SIgN scientists found that skin tumours are able to escape detection because of immuno-tolerance, and in their studies to determine how to reverse immuno-tolerance, they have been investigating how some white blood cells (CD 8+ T cells) could play a role in this phenomenon by contributing to disease progression and the body's efforts to control the spread of the tumour. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • What do you think your tolerance is around that test, the value test for those parcels? —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • They also won an AIB Better Ireland award and a prize for tolerance from the French city of Strasbourg. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • But to tell the truth, Elena Muti did not trouble herself overmuch about what society said of her covering her every audacity with the mantle of her beauty, her wealth, and her ancient name; and she went on her way serenely, surrounded by adulation and homage, by reason of a certain good-natured tolerance which is one of the most pleasing qualities of Roman society, amounting almost to an article of faith In any case, Andrea's connection with the Duchess of Scerni had instantly raised him enormously in the estimation of the women. —  The Child of Pleasure
 

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  1. Formerly also tollerance; from Old French tolerance, French tolérance =Provencal tolleransa =Spanish Portuguese tolerancia =Italian tolleranza, from Latin tolerantia, endurance, from toleran (t-)s, enduring, tolerant: see tolerant.
 

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