Usually means: Persistence in achieving goals relentlessly.
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  1. tenacity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tenacity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenacity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tenacity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tenacity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tenacity, tenacity: Wordnik
  7. tenacity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tenacity: Wiktionary
  9. tenacity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tenacity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tenacity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tenacity: Dictionary.com
  13. tenacity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Tenacity (disambiguation), Tenacity (mineralogy), Tenacity (textile strength): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. tenacity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tenacity: Rhymezone
  17. Tenacity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tenacity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. tenacity: Free Dictionary
  20. tenacity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tenacity: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Tenacity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Tenacity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. tenacity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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  1. tenacity: Legal dictionary

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  1. tenacity: Encyclopedia

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  1. tenacity: Urban Dictionary

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