Meaning of IDENTICAL
| Pronunciation: | | I'dentikul
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- [adj] (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical twins are monovular"
- [adj] coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles"
- [adj] (physics) having properties with uniform values along all axes
- [adj] exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | congruent, indistinguishable, isotropic, isotropous, monovular, one and the same(p), same, selfsame(a), superposable, very(a) |
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| | Antonyms: | | biovular, fraternal | | |
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| | Definition: | | \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. --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.
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