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Orientation vs Tolerance - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between orientation and tolerance

is that orientation is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented while tolerance is tolerance.

orientation

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
  • (uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings
  • (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end
  • (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction
  • (countable) The ability to orient
  • (countable) An adjustment to a new environment
  • (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment
  • (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait
  • (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space
  • Antonyms

    * disorientation

    Derived terms

    * orientational * orientation course * reorientation * sexual orientation

    tolerance

    Noun

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

    * intolerance

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