English-Thai Dictionary
tenuity
N ความ ผอมบาง ความ เรียว เล็ก thinness kwam-pom-bang
tenuity
N ความ ไม่เที่ยง ความไม่แน่นอน kwam-mai-ting
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TENUITY
n.[L. tenuitas, from tenuis, thin. See Thin. ] 1. Thinness, smallness in diameter; exility; thinness, applied to a broad substance, and slenderness, applied to one that is long; as the tenuity of paper or of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair or filament.
2. Rarity; rareness; thinness; as of a fluid; as the tenuity of the air in the higher regions of the atmosphere; the tenuity of the blood.
3. Poverty. [Not in use. ]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
TENUITY
Te *nu "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. ténuité.See Tenuous. ]
1. The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood. Bacon.
3. Poverty; indigence. [Obs. ] Eikon Basilike.
4. Refinement; delicacy.
New American Oxford Dictionary
tenuity
te nu i ty |teˈn (y )o͞oitē, tə -tɛˈnjuədi | ▶noun lack of solidity or substance; thinness. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin tenuitas, from tenuis ‘thin. ’
Oxford Dictionary
tenuity
tenuity |tɪˈnjuːɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] lack of solidity or substance; thinness. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin tenuitas, from tenuis ‘thin ’.
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