The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or
retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of
purpose.
That quality of bodies which keeps them from
parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction;
-- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility,
mobility, etc.
That quality of bodies which makes them adhere
to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
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.
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