FluentPlex

tolerance

/ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/ verb C2
  1. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

He/she/it tolerances · Past toleranced · Past participle toleranced · -ing form tolerancing

+ Save to review

Verb forms

Base form
tolerance
He/she/it
tolerances
Past
toleranced
Past participle
toleranced
-ing form
tolerancing

From the library

Despite these occasional inconveniences, municipal authorities generally encourage a policy of tolerance and passive deterrence rather than active removal.
Urban Foxes: Thriving in the Concrete Jungle, p. 1 · C1

Other matches

Learn tolerance in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.