Engineering tolerance
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Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in:
- a physical dimension,
- a measured value or physical property of a material manufactured object, system, or service,
- other measured values (such as temperature, humidity, etc.).
- in engineering and safety, a physical distance or space (tolerance), as in a truck (lorry), train or boat under a bridge as well as a train in a tunnel (see structure gauge and loading gauge).
- in mechanical engineering the space between a bolt and a nut or a hole, etc..
Dimensions, properties, or conditions may have some variation without significantly affecting functioning of systems, machines, structures, etc. A variation beyond the tolerance (for example, a temperature that's too hot or too cold) is said to be non-compliant, rejected, or exceeding the tolerance. If the tolerance is too restrictive, the machine being incapable of functioning in most environments, it is said to be intolerant.
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See also
- Backlash (engineering)
- Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
- Engineering fit
- Key relevance
- Margin of error
- Precision
- Precision engineering
- Probabilistic design
- Process capability
- Specification (technical standard)
- Statistical process control
- Statistical tolerance
- Structure gauge
- Taguchi methods
- Tolerance coning
- Tolerance interval
- Tolerance stacks
- Verification and validation
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