Tolerance or
toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally.
Economics, business, and politics
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Toleration Party, a historic political party active in Connecticut
* Tolerant Systems, the former name of
Veritas Software
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Tolerance tax, a historic tax that was levied against Jews in Hungary
Life sciences
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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 challe ...
, the ability of an organism to endure extreme dryness
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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
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Alcohol tolerance
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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
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Immune tolerance or immunological tolerance, by which the immune system does not attack an antigen
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Central tolerance, a mechanism by which newly developing T cells and B cells are rendered non-reactive to self
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Immune tolerance in pregnancy or gestational/maternal immune tolerance
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Low frustration tolerance, a concept in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
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Pain tolerance, the maximum level of pain that a person is able to tolerate
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Shade tolerance, a plant's abilities to tolerate low light levels
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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
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Engineering tolerance, permissible limit(s) of variation in an object
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Tolerance analysis, the study of accumulated variation in mechanical parts and assemblies
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Tolerance coning Tolerance coning is the engineering discipline of creating a budget of all tolerances that potentially add/subtract to affect adequacy of a particular parameter. This is particularly critical where stages of design/manufacture precede test/use.
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, a budget of all tolerances that affect a particular parameter
* Tolerance, a measure of
multicollinearity in statistics
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Tolerance interval, a type of statistical probability
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Tolerance relation, a
reflexive and
symmetric binary relation
In mathematics, a binary relation associates elements of one set, called the ''domain'', with elements of another set, called the ''codomain''. A binary relation over Set (mathematics), sets and is a new set of ordered pairs consisting of ele ...
in mathematics
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Tolerant sequence, in mathematical logic
Other uses
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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
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Tolerance Monument, an outdoor sculpture near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem
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''Tolerance'' (film), a 2000 Brazilian drama film
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''Tolerance'' (sculpture), a 2011 sculpture by Jaume Plensa
See also
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Intolerance (disambiguation)
Intolerance may refer to:
* Hypersensitivity or intolerance, undesirable reactions produced by the immune system
* Intolerance (film), ''Intolerance'' (film), a 1916 film by D. W. Griffith
* Intolerance (album), ''Intolerance'' (album), the first ...
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Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
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Toleration Act (disambiguation)
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Zero tolerance (disambiguation)
Zero tolerance is a type of punishment policy. The term can also refer to:
* Trump administration zero tolerance policy
* Zero tolerance (schools), the rule enforcement policy in North American schools
* Zero tolerance (trade), a regulatory standar ...
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