tenacity

1. n. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose. Source: opted

2. n. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc. Source: opted

3. n. That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. n. persistent determination Source: wordnet

6. 1. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose. 2. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc. 3. That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. Holland. 4. (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. Source: webster

7. The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear withouttearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit areaof the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds persquare inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to producerupture. Source: adambom

8. n:100 n persistent determination Source: ecdict

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