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countable and uncountable, plural tenacities
The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness. quotations examples
— 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. examples
The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness. examples
The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity. examples
(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. examples