Category:Tenacity

Te*nac"i*ty, n. Etym: [l. tenacitas: cf. F. ténacité. 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)

Defn: 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.