engineering tolerance
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permissible limit(s) of variation in an engineered component or system
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- Subclass of
- limit
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- different from
- allowance
- facet of
- quality control
- Commons category
- Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
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Encyclopedic overview
Example for the DIN ISO 2768-2 tolerance table. This is just one example for linear tolerances for a 100 mm value. This is just one of the 8 defined ranges (30–120 mm). Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in:
a physical dimension;
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