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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/, [ˈtɔ̟l.ə.ɹəns]

名詞

tolerance (countable and uncountable, plural tolerances)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
2. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. [from 18th c.]

   Synonym: toleration

   Near-synonym: forbearance

   • 2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine:

     Both [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky and [David] Ben-Gurion also wrote songs of praise to the Ottoman Empire, its tolerance toward ethnic minorities in general — and to Jews in particular — as well as to the democratic changes it was undergoing.

3. (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.]
4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]

   Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.

5. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.]

反意語

• intolerance

下位語

• (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance

派生語

関連する語

動詞

tolerance (third-person singular simple present tolerances, present participle tolerancing, simple past and past participle toleranced)

1. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance. [from 1912]

参照

• tolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “tolerance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tolerance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “tolerance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• coeternal, neorectal