Usually means: Allowable variations in manufacturing specifications.
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  1. tolerances: Merriam-Webster
  2. tolerances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tolerances: Vocabulary.com
  4. tolerances: Wordnik
  5. tolerances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tolerances: Wiktionary
  7. Tolerances: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. tolerances: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tolerances: Legal dictionary

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  1. tolerances: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tolerances: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tolerances: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See tolerance as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tolerance)

noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
noun:  (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
noun:  (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
verb:  To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.
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