tenacity
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tenacity
- The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster ↗:
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster ↗:
- The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
- The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
- (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.
- (state of being tenacious) tenaciousness, determination, persistency, retentiveness, stubbornness
- (quality keeping bodies together) cohesiveness
- (quality making bodies adhere) adhesiveness, viscosity
- (quality keeping bodies together) brittleness, fragility, mobility
- French: ténacité
- German: Zähigkeit, Beharrlichkeit
- Portuguese: tenacidade
- Russian: це́пкость
- Spanish: tenacidad, tesón
- Russian: свя́зность
- Russian: кле́йкость
- Russian: про́чность на растяже́ние (próčnostʹ na rastjažénije) f, предел прочности
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