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Toughness

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  • 1. The quality of being strong and not easily broken or damaged: The toughness of the cast iron furnaces is remarkable. C2. the quality of being not easily defeated or made weaker: She has a reputation for toughness and resilience. (Cambridge Dictionary). 2. A physical quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's resistance to pressure, being broken, or pierced (TIB, The Environment Ontology). 3. Toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing. Toughness is the strength with which the material opposes rupture. One definition of material toughness is the amount of energy per unit volume that a material can absorb before rupturing. This measure of toughness is different from that used for fracture toughness, which describes the capacity of materials to resist fracture. (Wikipedia). 4. The quality of being strong and not easily broken, torn, etc. (Merriam-Webster dictionary). 5. The quality of being strong and not easily broken or damaged (Cambridge Dictionary)

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