identical

[I*den·tic*al]

When you're looking for exact replicas, don't waste your time on snowflakes or fingerprints; no two are identical, or exactly the same.

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The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

Adjective
(of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical twins are monovular"

Adjective S.
coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles"

Adjective S.
having properties with uniform values along all axes

Adjective S.
exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats"

Adjective S.
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 ver

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a.
The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

a.
Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.


Identical

I*den"tic*al , a. [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.
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.
Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

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Usage Examples

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Faith is never identical with piety.

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Other Usage Examples

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

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