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UK
/tˈɒləɹəns/
]
[ US /ˈtɑɫɝəns/ ]
[ US /ˈtɑɫɝəns/ ]
NOUN
- willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
- the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- the act of tolerating something
- a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
How To Use tolerance In A Sentence
- This tolerance has practical application in bioremediation and in efforts to colonize polluted sites.
- If you have lost enchantment, you are liable to divisiveness, intolerance, and aggression.
- Duet is the first dependably variegated beautyberry, selected for its yellow-margined, variegated foliage and tolerance to full sun. New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity
- Due to the dielectric isolation of the measurement circuit layer, the sensor can work steadily under high temperature and possesses greater excess temperature tolerance.
- In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.
- It is due to the high overhead and the unhandiness of the previous fault-tolerance systems.
- This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers.
- It is well known that diabetics and people with glucose intolerance have impaired calcium metabolism. The Family Nutrition Workbook
- This makes the task of introducing tolerance to parasites or disease via genetic modification exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
- In whatever way you choose to commemorate the horrendous acts of early September four years ago, let us once again renew our gratitude for the freedoms we enjoy and reaffirm our commitment to tolerance, peace and liberty throughout the world. 09/01/2005
