Tolerance

Template:Sister project Template:Sister project 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

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
• Tolerance relation, a reflexive and symmetric binary relation in mathematics
• 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

See also

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