How to pronounce “tenacity”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
• The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
• The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
• The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
• (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.

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