 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
identical
adjective
1: exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different;
"rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for
their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable
hats" [syn: {indistinguishable}]
2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the
identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his
stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation
in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing
he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: {one
and the same(p)}, {selfsame(a)}, {very(a)}]
3: (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical
twins are monovular" [syn: {monovular}] [ant: {fraternal}]
4: having properties with uniform values along all axes
5: coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles"
[syn: {superposable}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Identical \I*den"tic*al\, adjective [Cf. F. identique. See {Identity}.]
1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as,
the identical person or thing.
I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago,
without a conviction . . . that I, the same
identical person who now remember that event, did
then exist. --Reid.
2. Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the
predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the
subject; tautological.
When you say body is solid, I say that you make an
identical proposition, because it is impossible to
have the idea of body without that of solidity.
--Fleming.
{Identical equation} (Alg.), an equation which is true for
all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Identic \I*den"tic\, Identical \I*den"tic*al\, adjective
In diplomacy (esp. in the form identic), precisely agreeing
in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; --
applied to concerted action or language which is used by two
or more governments in treating with another government.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "identical":
alike, all one, all the same, aped, biform, bifurcated, bilateral,
bipartisan, bipartite, coequal, comparable, consimilar,
consubstantial, convertible, coordinate, copied, correspondent,
corresponding, counterfeit, dichotomous, double, duadic, dual,
dualistic, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, dyadic, equal,
equiparant, equipollent, equivalent, ersatz, exact, exactly alike,
fake, favoring, following, homogeneous, homoousian, identic,
imitated, imitation, indistinguishable, interchangeable,
just alike, like, matched, matching, mimicked, mock, much the same,
nearly reproduced, not unlike, one, phony, resembling, same,
selfsame, similar, simulated, smacking of, something like,
suggestive of, synthetic, tantamount, twain, twin, twinned, two,
two-sided, undifferent, uniform with, very, without difference,
without distinction
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