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tolerance: the difference between the maximum limit of size and the minimum limit of size; in other words, the algebraical difference between the upper deviation and the lower deviation. The tolerance is an absolute value without sign. A 'tolerance' may also be a tolerance of shape
Category: Standards, measures and testing

tolerance: the ability of an organism or biological process to subsist under a given set of environmental conditions
Category: Botany and zoology

tolerance: adaptation phenomenon characterized by diminished response to the same quantity of a drug
Category: Medicine

tolerance: difference between two permissible limits of size for which a part still meets its purpose.This purpose may obviously be the possibility to obtain by machining a part of given size
Category: Iron and steel industries

tolerance: the ability of trees,shrubs,and ground vegetation to remain in vigour under recreation
Category: Building industry

tolerance: The state in which repetition of the same dose of a drug has progressively less effect and in which the dose needs to be increased to obtain the same degree of effect experienced by the original dose
Category: General

tolerance: a permitted deviation(plus or minus)from a specified dimension of a product
Category: Various industries and crafts

tolerance: The maximum allowed variation in a measured value expressed as a fraction of a mean value of an appropriate number of measurements
Category: Physics

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