Tolerance

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

Economics, business, and politics

  • Toleration Party, a historic political party active in Connecticut
  • Tolerant Systems, the former name of
    Veritas Software
  • Tolerance tax, a historic tax that was levied against Jews in Hungary

Life sciences

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Other uses

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