Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 22 compound words that contain tolerance. The most common are listed below. Open tolerance in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- zero toleranceThe strict policy of enforcing law(s) or the rule(s), and allowing no toleration or compromise even for first-time offenders or petty violations.
- fault toleranceProperty that enables a system to continue operating properly in event of one failure or several failures of some of its components.
- Glucose tolerance
- paradox of toleranceThe idea that, if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.
- Byzantine fault toleranceThe dependability of a fault-tolerant (distributed) computer system, where components may fail without perfect information about the state of the components.
- paradoxes of toleranceplural of paradox of tolerance: The idea that, if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.
- tolerance breakA break from a drug, especially cannabis, in an attempt to lower one's tolerance to the drug.
- tolerance breaksplural of tolerance break: A break from a drug, especially cannabis, in an attempt to lower one's tolerance to the drug.
- house of toleranceA licensed brothel.
- houses of toleranceplural of house of tolerance: A licensed brothel.
Compound words 22
- aerotoleranceThe quality of being aerotolerant.
- barotoleranceThe condition of being barotolerant.
- immunotoleranceA specific tolerance of the immune system to a particular antigen, which is capable under other conditions of inducing an immune response
- autotoleranceimmunological tolerance of ones own tissue
- chaotoleranceThe condition of being chaotolerant
- chronotolerancechronic (extending over time) tolerance (to medication, especially radiotherapy)
- crosstoleranceTolerance to one drug as a result of tolerance to another.
- cryotolerancetolerance of cold temperatures
- halotoleranceThe quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- heterotoleranceSubsequent unresponsiveness to a different agonist