Tolerance
Encyclopedia
Tolerance or toleration
is the practice of permitting a thing of which one disapproves, such as social, ethnic, sexual, or religious practices.
Tolerance, tolerant, or toleration may also refer to:
Toleration
Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve"...
is the practice of permitting a thing of which one disapproves, such as social, ethnic, sexual, or religious practices.
Tolerance, tolerant, or toleration may also refer to:
- Engineering tolerance, permissible limit(s) of variation in an object
- Tolerance analysisTolerance analysisTolerance 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 electrical systems. Engineers analyze tolerances for the...
, the study of accumulated variation in mechanical parts and assemblies - Tolerance coningTolerance coningTolerance coning is the engineering discipline of creating a budget of all tolerances that potentially add/subtract to affect adequacy of a particular parameter...
, a budget of all tolerances that affect a particular parameter
- Tolerance analysis
- Paradox of toleranceParadox of toleranceThe tolerance paradox arises from a problem that a tolerant person might be antagonistic toward intolerance, hence intolerant of it. The tolerant individual would then be by definition intolerant of intolerance...
, the problem that a tolerant person is antagonistic toward intolerance, hence intolerant of it - Tolerance groupTolerance groupThe term "tolerance groups" refers to a way to make sure that employees do not exceed their authority in financial transactions in an ERP system. Usually this is done by setting limits on the size of transaction an employee can process...
, a way to ensure employees do not exceed their authority in financial transactions in an ERP system - Tolerance MonumentTolerance MonumentThe Tolerance Monument is an outdoor sculpture located in a park near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem, Israel. The monument was designed by Polish sculptor Czesław Dźwigaj, known for his religious art, in collaboration with sculptor Michal Kubiak...
, an outdoor sculpture near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem, Israel - Tolerance taxTolerance taxTolerance tax was a tax that was levied against Jews of Hungary, then part of the Austrian Empire, beginning in 1747.The tax was based on the German statute that a Jew was obliged to pay a certain tax to be "tolerated"....
, a historic tax that was levied against Jews in Hungary - Tolerant Systems, the former name of Veritas SoftwareVERITAS SoftwareVeritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California...
- Toleration PartyToleration PartyThe Toleration Party was a political party active in Connecticut in the early 19th century...
, a historic political party active in Connecticut
Biology, medicine, physiology
- Desiccation toleranceDesiccation toleranceDesiccation 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 challenge of desiccation, therefore physiological or...
, 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 toleranceAlcohol toleranceAlcohol tolerance refers to the bodily responses to the functional effects of ethanol in alcoholic beverages. This includes direct tolerance, speed of recovery from insobriety and resistance to the development of alcoholism.-Consumption-induced tolerance:...
- Multidrug toleranceMultidrug toleranceMultidrug tolerance or antibiotic tolerance is the ability of a disease-causing microorganism to resist killing by antibiotics or other antimicrobials. It is mechanistically distinct from multidrug resistance: It is not caused by mutant microbes, but rather by microbial cells that exist in a...
or antibiotic tolerance, the ability of a disease-causing microorganism to resist killing by antimicrobials
- Alcohol tolerance
- Immune toleranceImmune toleranceImmune tolerance or immunological tolerance is the process by which the immune system does not attack an antigen. It can be either 'natural' or 'self tolerance', in which the body does not mount an immune response to self antigens, or 'induced tolerance', in which tolerance to external antigens can...
or immunological tolerance, the process by which the immune system does not attack an antigen- Central toleranceCentral toleranceCentral tolerance is the mechanism by which newly developing T cells and B cells are rendered non-reactive to self. The concept of central tolerance was proposed in 1959 by Joshua Lederberg, as part of his general theory of immunity and tolerance, and is often mistakenly attributed to MacFarlane...
, a mechanism by which newly developing T cells and B cells are rendered non-reactive to self - Immune tolerance in pregnancyImmune tolerance in pregnancyImmune tolerance in pregnancy or gestational/maternal immune tolerance is the absence of a maternal immune response against the fetus and placenta, which thus may be viewed as unusually successful allografts, since they genetically differ from the mother. In the same way, many cases of spontaneous...
or gestational/maternal immune tolerance
- Central tolerance
- Low frustration toleranceLow frustration toleranceProponents of Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy cite a construct or concept they call low frustration tolerance, or "short-term hedonism" in order to partly explain behaviors like procrastination and certain other apparently paradoxical or self-defeating behavior...
, a concept in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy - Pain tolerancePain tolerancePain tolerance is the maximum level of pain that a person is able to tolerate. Pain tolerance is distinct from pain threshold .-Factors affecting pain tolerance:...
, the maximum level of pain that a person is able to tolerate - Shade toleranceShade toleranceIn ecology, shade tolerance is a plant's abilities to tolerate low light levels. The term is also used in horticulture and landscaping, although in this context its use is sometimes sloppy, especially with respect to labeling of plants for sale in nurseries....
, a plant's abilities to tolerate low light levels
Mathematics and statistics
- Tolerance, a measure of multicollinearityMulticollinearityMulticollinearity is a statistical phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated. In this situation the coefficient estimates may change erratically in response to small changes in the model or the data...
in statistics - Tolerance intervalTolerance intervalA tolerance interval is a statistical interval within which, with some confidence level, a specified proportion of a population falls.A tolerance interval can be seen as a statistical version of a probability interval. If we knew a population's exact parameters, we would be able to compute a range...
, a type of statistical probability - Tolerant sequence, in mathematical logic
See also
- Intolerance (disambiguation)
- Ontario Consultants on Religious ToleranceOntario Consultants on Religious ToleranceThe Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance are a small group in Kingston, Ontario dedicated to the promotion of religious tolerance through their website, ReligiousTolerance.org.-History of the group and its website:Bruce A...
- Toleration Act (disambiguation)
- Zero tolerance (disambiguation)Zero tolerance (disambiguation)Zero tolerance is a type of punishment policy. The term can also refer to:* Zero tolerance , the rule enforcement policy in North American schools* Zero tolerance , a regulatory standard* Zero Tolerance , a 1994 video game...