identical
IPA: aɪdˈɛntɪkʌɫ
noun
- (usually pluralized, chiefly philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
- An identical twin.
- (poetry) A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".
adjective
- (not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
- (not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
- (not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
- (not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.
- (comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:identical.
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Examples of "identical" in Sentences
- And you can see that all three approaches result in identical curves.
- Thus Theseus 2 can be identical with Theseus 1 only in a “loose and popular” sense of ˜identical™.
- In using the term identical it is intended to designate just one unit of the course, as English I, or Latin II.
- However, the term identical twins actually refers to a type of twinning, and describes how they form, not what they look like.
- After a minute or two, we arrived at a large security door, guarded by two armed men, dressed in identical dark green uniforms.
- When we get these binaries, now we can compare each one of them to the binary form of the inputs to determine the term identical to the state of prime implicant.
- These men undoubtedly influenced the eventual abandonment of dressing boys and girls in identical dresses in the early 20th century; children are especially impressionable, and susceptible to gender confusion (which was, and remains, generally undesirable).
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