tolerances

noun

1. The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
2. The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
3. 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.
4. The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.“Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.”