Tolerance or

toleration Toleration is when one allows or permits an action, idea, object, or person that they dislike or disagree with. Political scientist Andrew R. Murphy explains that "We can improve our understanding by defining 'toleration' as a set of social or ...

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

Economics, business, and politics

Toleration Party The Toleration Party, also known as the Toleration-Republican Party and later the American Party or American Toleration and Reform Party, was a political party that dominated the political life of Connecticut from 1817 to 1827. The ''American'' ...

, a historic political party active in Connecticut * Tolerant Systems, the former name of

Veritas Software Veritas Technologies LLC is an American international data management company headquartered in Mountain View, California, Santa Clara, California. The company has its origins in Tolerant Systems, founded in 1983 and later renamed Veritas Softwa ...

* Tolerance tax, a historic tax that was levied against Jews in Hungary

Life sciences

Desiccation tolerance Desiccation tolerance refers to the ability of an organism to withstand or endure extreme dryness, or drought-like conditions. Plants and animals living in arid or periodically arid environments such as temporary streams or ponds may face the chall ...

, the ability of an organism to endure extreme dryness *

Drug tolerance Drug tolerance or drug insensitivity is a pharmacological concept describing subjects' reduced reaction to a drug following its repeated use. Increasing its dosage may re-amplify the drug's effects; however, this may accelerate tolerance, further ...

or physiological tolerance, a decrease in the response to a substance due to previous exposure **

Alcohol tolerance Alcohol tolerance refers to the bodily responses to the functional effects of ethanol. This includes direct tolerance, speed of recovery from insobriety and resistance to the development of alcohol use disorder. Consumption-induced tolerance Alco ...

Multidrug tolerance Persister cells are subpopulations of cells that resist treatment, and become antimicrobial tolerant by changing to a state of dormancy or quiescence. Persister cells in their dormancy do not divide. The tolerance shown in persister cells differs ...

or antibiotic tolerance, the ability of a disease-causing microorganism to resist killing by antimicrobials *

Immune tolerance Immune tolerance, also known as immunological tolerance or immunotolerance, refers to the immune system's state of unresponsiveness to substances or tissues that would otherwise trigger an immune response. It arises from prior exposure to a specif ...

or immunological tolerance, by which the immune system does not attack an antigen **

Central tolerance In immunology, central tolerance (also known as negative selection) is the process of eliminating any ''developing'' T or B lymphocytes that are autoreactive, i.e. reactive to the body itself. Through elimination of autoreactive lymphocytes, t ...

, 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 Low frustration tolerance (LFT) is a concept utilized to describe the inability to tolerate unpleasant feelings or stressful situations. It stems from the feeling that reality should be as wished, and that any frustration should be resolved quick ...

, a concept in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy *

Pain tolerance Pain tolerance is the maximum level of pain that a person is able to tolerate. Pain tolerance is distinct from pain threshold (the point at which pain begins to be felt).Shade tolerance In ecology, shade tolerance is a plant's ability to tolerate low light levels. The term is also used in horticulture and landscaping, although in this context its use is sometimes imprecise, especially in labeling of plants for sale in nursery (ho ...

, 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 Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in: # a physical dimension; # a measured value or physical property of a material, manufactured object, system, or service; # other measured values (such as temperature, hum ...

, permissible limit(s) of variation in an object **

Tolerance analysis Tolerance analysis is the general term for activities related to the study of accumulated variation in mechanical parts and assemblies. Its methods may be used on other types of systems subject to accumulated variation, such as mechanical and elec ...

, 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, multicollinearity or collinearity is a situation where the predictors in a regression model are linearly dependent. Perfect multicollinearity refers to a situation where the predictive variables have an ''exact'' linear rela ...

in statistics *

Tolerance interval A tolerance interval (TI) is a statistical interval within which, with some confidence level, a specified sampling (statistics), sampled proportion of a population falls. "More specifically, a tolerance interval provides limits within which at l ...

, a type of statistical probability * Tolerance relation, a reflexive and

symmetric Symmetry () in everyday life refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, the term has a more precise definition and is usually used to refer to an object that is invariant under some transformations ...

binary relation In mathematics, a binary relation associates some elements of one Set (mathematics), set called the ''domain'' with some elements of another set called the ''codomain''. Precisely, a binary relation over sets X and Y is a set of ordered pairs ...

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 The Tolerance Monument (Hebrew language, Hebrew פסל הסובלנות) is an outdoor sculpture located in a park near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem. History The monument was designed by Polish sculptor Czesław Dźwigaj, known for his religio ...

, an outdoor sculpture near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem * ''Tolerance'' (film), a 2000 Brazilian drama film * ''Tolerance'' (sculpture), a 2011 sculpture by Jaume Plensa

Economics, business, and politics

Life sciences

Physical sciences

Other uses

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