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 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.