Tolerance

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

• 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

Beginning

The term “toleration”—from the Latin tolerare: to put up with, countenance or suffer—generally refers to the conditional acceptance of or non-interference with beliefs, actions or practices that one considers to be wrong but still “tolerable,” such that they should not be prohibited or constrained. There are many contexts in which we speak of a person or an institution as being tolerant: parents tolerate certain behavior of their children, a friend tolerates the weaknesses of another, a monarch tolerates dissent, a church tolerates homosexuality, a state tolerates a minority religion, a society tolerates deviant behavior.

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)