Tolerance
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Tolerance or toleration to tolerate, or put up with, conditionally, also to suggest a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
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, 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)