tolerances

noun

1. 1

   The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

2. 2

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

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   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.”

5. 5

   The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.