tolerance

a fair, respectful, and permissive attitude or policy toward people whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one’s own or from those of the majority; freedom from bigotry and from an insistence on conformity.

interest in, concern for, and openness toward ideas, opinions, practices, etc., that are different from one’s own; a liberal, undogmatic attitude.

the act or capacity of enduring; endurance.

the act of passively allowing something, especially something wrong, by failing to prevent or stop it; toleration.

Medicine/Medical, Immunology, Biology.��

1. the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, pollutant, or biological stressor, as in

   Patients exhibiting morphine tolerance require higher doses over time in order to achieve the same pain relief.

   The project aims to develop a variety of sorghum with superior drought and salinity tolerance.

2. the lack of or low levels of immune response to transplanted tissue or other foreign substance that is normally immunogenic.

   The lab studies the fundamental mechanisms of transplant rejection and transplant tolerance, with a goal to help patients avoid the need for lifelong immunosuppressive drugs.

Machinery.��

1. the permissible range of variation in a dimension of an object.

2. the permissible variation of an object or objects in some characteristic such as hardness, weight, or quantity.

Also called allowance.��Coining.��a permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coin, owing to the difficulty of securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.