Tolerance

English Meaning

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.

1. The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.
2. Leeway for variation from a standard.
3. The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.
4. The capacity to endure hardship or pain.
5. Medicine Physiological resistance to a poison.
6. Medicine The capacity to absorb a drug continuously or in large doses without adverse effect; diminution in the response to a drug after prolonged use.
7. Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.
8. Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunological reaction.
9. The ability of an organism to resist or survive infection by a parasitic or pathogenic organism.