Definitions
1.nounThe quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
2.nounThe quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
3.nounThe effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
4.nounThe quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
5.nounThe 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.