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Tolerance

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Tolerance or toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally.

Economics, business, and politics

  • Toleration Party, a historic political party active in Connecticut
  • Tolerant Systems, the former name of Veritas Software
  • Tolerance tax, a historic tax that was levied against Jews in Hungary

Life sciences

  • Desiccation tolerance, the ability of an organism to endure extreme dryness
  • Drug tolerance or physiological tolerance, a decrease in the response to a substance due to previous exposure
    • Alcohol tolerance
    • Multidrug tolerance or antibiotic tolerance, the ability of a disease-causing microorganism to resist killing by antimicrobials
  • Immune tolerance or immunological tolerance, by which the immune system does not attack an antigen
    • Central tolerance, a mechanism by which newly developing T cells and B cells are rendered non-reactive to self
    • Immune tolerance in pregnancy or gestational/maternal immune tolerance
  • Low frustration tolerance, a concept in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
  • Pain tolerance, the maximum level of pain that a person is able to tolerate
  • Shade tolerance, a plant's abilities to tolerate low light levels
  • Disease tolerance or tolerance to infection - one of the mechanisms host organisms can use to fight against parasites, pathogens or herbivores that attack the host.frustration

Physical sciences

  • Engineering tolerance, permissible limit(s) of variation in an object
    • Tolerance analysis, the study of accumulated variation in mechanical parts and assemblies
    • Tolerance coning, a budget of all tolerances that affect a particular parameter
  • Tolerance, a measure of multicollinearity in statistics
  • Tolerance interval, a type of statistical probability
  • Tolerant sequence, in mathematical logic

Other uses

  • Paradox of tolerance, a paradox described by Karl Popper stating that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant
  • Tolerance Monument, an outdoor sculpture near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem
  • Tolerance (film), a 2000 Brazilian drama film
  • Tolerance (sculpture), a 2011 sculpture by Jaume Plensa

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