Tolerance or toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally.
Economics, business, and politics
Life sciences
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Desiccation tolerance, the ability of an organism to endure extreme dryness
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Drug tolerance 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 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
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, a budget of all tolerances that affect a particular parameter
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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
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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)
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Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
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Toleration Act (disambiguation)
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Zero tolerance (disambiguation)