About The Word Tenacity
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Tenacity
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What's The Definition Of Tenacity?
[n] persistent determination
Synonyms | Synonyms for Tenacity: doggedness | perseverance | persistence | persistency | pertinacity | tenaciousness Related Terms | Find terms related to Tenacity: See Also | determination | purpose Tenacity In Webster's Dictionary \Te*nac"i*ty\, n. [L. tenacitas: cf. F. t['e]nacit['e].
See {Tenacious}.]
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.
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