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What does tenacity mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
  2. The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
  3. The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
  4. The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
  5. (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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His youthful enthusiasm seemed to blend seamlessly with the tenacity of Steve Thompson and Phil Vickery.
If its tenacity in our garden is anything to go by, willowherb will survive any nuclear onslaught.
Great tenacity from Grant which saw him rob Devenney of the ball set up a point for Mickey Linden and Down kept their noses in front.
Today's Signa and Vectra hold the road with an accuracy and tenacity alien to their ancestors, making them good fun to drive.
That assessment may have proved correct but it reckoned without Canada's tenacity.
It fostered a certain resignedness, but also a great pride in its tenacity.

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