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Identical

adjective

Exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different. Synonym: indistinguishable. "Cars identical except for their license plates" , "They wore indistinguishable hats"

Being the exact same one; not any other:. Synonyms: selfsame, very. "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"

(of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum. Synonym: monovular. Antonym: fraternal.

Having properties with uniform values along all axes.

Coinciding exactly when superimposed. Synonym: superposable.

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"Identical" Quotes from Famous Books

... the raw stuff itself, scattered all over the shop by the blow-up—and in a rusty cashbox a diary or private ledger, posted up in a clumsy kind of thieves' cipher, impossible to make out, but with the name written on it of the identical man my wife suspected and the Chief believed to be the murderer of Miss Mildare's adopted mother! And that's what you may call the Clue Direct, Saxham, I ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... the common reactions, those which are to be found in the tables, and the individual reactions, those which are not to be found in the tables. For the sake of accuracy, any reaction word which is not found in the table in its identical form, but which is a grammatical variant of a word found there, may be ...

— A Study of Association in Insanity • Grace Helen Kent

... old man, "I was watching the crowds at the circus,—I knew the boy was fond of circuses,—an who should go by me into the tent but this same Ralph. I made sure he was the identical person, and yesterday I went to Robert Burnham, and ...

— Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene

... exclusion of the rest of their teaching. My only consolation is that I had not the power of venting these barbarities on any sentient creature. Nevertheless the difference between my wooden pupils and those of the Seminary did not prevent my psychology from being identical with that of ...

— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore

... sensation as these remarkable words met my eye. It might possibly be a proposal. I did not wait to speculate, however, but read these sentences traced in the identical handwriting which had copied the lines with which ...

— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

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