tenacity
tenacity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- 2.That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. Holland.
- 3.(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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- ant
- atomic
- back
- bird
- bond
- captive
- cartilage
- cartilaginous
- cement
- clench
- clinch
- close
- clutch
- cohesion
- coriaceous
- custody
- detain
- detention
- entail
- fast
- finger
- firm
- fist
- forceps
- fracture
- glue
- glutinousness
- grasp
- grip
- gripe
- gristle
- gristly
- ground
- hand
- have
- hold
- hook
- hug
- husband
- inalienable
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is tenacity.
- What is that quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc called?
- What is that quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. Holland called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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