Tolerance

Tolerance or toleration is the practice of permitting a thing of which one disapproves, such as social, ethnic, sexual, or religious practices.

Tolerance, tolerant, or toleration may also refer to:

• 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
• Paradox of tolerance, the problem that a tolerant person is antagonistic toward intolerance, hence intolerant of it
• Tolerance group, a way to ensure employees do not exceed their authority in financial transactions in an ERP system
• Tolerance Monument, an outdoor sculpture near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem, Israel
• Tolerance tax, a historic tax that was levied against Jews in Hungary
• Tolerant Systems, the former name of Veritas Software
• Toleration Party, a historic political party active in Connecticut

Biology, medicine, physiology

• 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, the process 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

Mathematics and statistics

• Tolerance, a measure of multicollinearity in statistics
• Tolerance interval, a type of statistical probability
• Tolerant sequence, in mathematical logic

See also

• Intolerance (disambiguation)
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
• Toleration Act (disambiguation)
• Zero tolerance (disambiguation)