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Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F.
tol['e]rance.]
1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring;
endurance.
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Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market
place, shaking, to show his tolerance. --Bacon.
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2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable
persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions;
toleration.
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3. (Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of
bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would
prove injurious or fatal.
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4. (Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade.
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5. the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from
exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight,
hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or
electrical devices or operations; -- caklled also
{allowance} specif.: (Coinage) The amount which coins,
either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary
above or below the standard of weight or fineness.
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6. (Biochemistry) the capacity to resist the deleterious
action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the
organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to
anitbiotics.
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7. (Immunology) the acquired inability to respond with an
immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism
normally responds; -- called also {immunotolerance},
{immunological tolerance}, or {immune tolerance}. Such
tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the
antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation
of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the
animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen
({low-zone tolerance}), or to a large amount of an antigen
({high-zone tolerance}).
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{Tolerance of the mint}. (Coinage) Same as {Remedy of the
mint}. See under {Remedy}.
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Allowance \Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.]
1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe.
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2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting;
authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
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Without the king's will or the state's allowance.
--Shak.
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3. Acknowledgment.
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The censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak.
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4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke.
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5. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or
granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as
appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food
or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink,
when provisions fall short.
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I can give the boy a handsome allowance.
--Thackeray.
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6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of
mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the
inexperience of youth.
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After making the largest allowance for fraud.
--Macaulay.
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7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of
goods, different in different countries, such as tare and
tret.
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Allowance \Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allowancing}.]
[See {Allowance}, n.]
To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink);
to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain
was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were
allowanced.
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