Definizione monolingua

tenacity

tenacity (plural tenacities)

1. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
   • 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster

     — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!

     — Tenure?

     — Tenacity!

2. The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
3. The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
4. 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.

Definizione dizionario tenacity

coesione

compattezza

fermezza

ostinazione

perseveranza

tenacia

Altri significati:

The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.

quality or state of being tenacious

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.

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.