Complete Definition of "tenacity"

English

Noun
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  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.
  4. 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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trans-top|The quality or state of being tenacious
Finnish: sitkeys, sinnikkyys
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trans-top|That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force
Finnish: sitkeys
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trans-top|That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies
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trans-top|The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder
Finnish: vetolujuus, vetomurtolujuus
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ttbc|Greek: ε�ιμονή (epimone) f
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ttbc|Spanish: tenacidad f

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