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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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: identical, 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: identical, selfsame, very]
3: (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical twins are monovular" [syn: identical, monovular] [ant: biovular, fraternal]
4: having properties with uniform values along all axes
5: coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles" [syn: identical, superposable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: probably from Medieval Latin identicus, from Late Latin identitas Date: 1581 1. being the same ; selfsame <the identical place we stopped before> 2. having such close resemblance as to be essentially the same <identical hats> — often used with to or with 3. a. having the same cause or origin <identical infections> b. monozygotic Synonyms: see same • identically adverb • identicalness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (often foll. by with) (of different things) agreeing in every detail. 2 (of one thing viewed at different times) one and the same. 3 (of twins) developed from a single fertilized ovum, therefore of the same sex and usu. very similar in appearance. 4 Logic & Math. expressing an identity. Derivatives: identically adv. identicalness n. Etymology: med.L identicus (as IDENTITY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Identic I*den"tic, Identical I*den"tic*al, a. 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's 1913 Dictionary

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. --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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Things that are identical are exactly the same. The two parties fought the last election on almost identical manifestos. ADJ: oft ADJ to/with n • identically ...nine identically dressed female dancers. ADV: usu ADV -ed/adj, also ADV after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Same, selfsame, very same, one and the same, exactly the same, not different.

Moby Thesaurus

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