Tenacity in English dictionary

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    Meanings and definitions of "Tenacity"

    • The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
    • The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
    • The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
    • 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.
    • noun
      The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
    • noun
      The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
    • noun
      the effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
    • noun
      The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
    • noun
      (physics)
      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.
    • quality or state of being tenacious
    • noun
      persistent determination

    Synonyms of "Tenacity" in English dictionary

    tenaciousness, doggedness, persistence are the top synonyms of "Tenacity" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Tenacity

    • tenacity ( plural  tenacities)
    • tenacity (countable and uncountable, plural tenacities)
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