Word Meanings - TENACITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: TENACITY

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. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TENACITY)

• Perserverance
• Persistence
• steadfastness
• constancy
• indefatigableness
• resolution
• tenacity

Related words: (words related to TENACITY)

• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• TENACITY
  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,
• PERSISTENCE; PERSISTENCY
  The persistence of motion. Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness;
• STEADFASTNESS
  The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy. "The steadfastness of your faith." Col. ii. 5. To prove her wifehood and her steadfastness. Chaucer.
• RESOLUTIONIST
  One who makes a resolution.
• RESOLUTION
  The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem. (more info) 1. The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. The act of
• INDEFATIGABLENESS
  Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell.
• CONSTANCY
  1. The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from hange; stability; fixedness; immutabilitu; asm the constancy of God in his nature and attributes. 2. Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness
• UNCONSTANCY
  Inconstancy. "The unconstancy of the foundation." Fuller.
• IRRESOLUTION
  Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in
• INCONSTANCY
  The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.