tenacity

/tษ™หˆnรฆsษ™ti/

IPA: /T AH0 N AE1 S IH0 T IY0/

noun
  1. 1

    The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.

  2. 2

    The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

  3. 3

    The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.

  4. 4

    The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.

  5. 5

    The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.

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