toleranssi — meaning in English
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English meaning
- tolerance noun Acceptance of beliefs, practices, or people different from one's own, without prejudice.
Senses
toleranssi is used for these senses in English:
- tolerance (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. [from 19th c.]
- tolerance (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]
tolerance — full definition
- noun Acceptance of beliefs, practices, or people different from one's own, without prejudice.
- noun The capacity of the body to endure or resist something, such as a drug, pain, or infection.
- noun The permitted amount of variation from a standard measurement in engineering or manufacturing.