tenacity vs uncertainty

tenacity

noun
  • The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity. 

  • 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. 

  • The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc. 

  • The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness. 

  • The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness. 

uncertainty

noun
  • Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction. 

  • A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values. 

  • Something uncertain or ambiguous. 

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