Identical

a.	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.

Adj.	1.	identical - exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats" Synonyms: indistinguishable
	2.	identical - 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" Synonyms: one and the same, selfsame, very
	3.	identical - (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical twins are monovular" Synonyms: monovular Antonyms: biovular, fraternal - (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova; "fraternal twins are biovular"
	4.	identical - having properties with uniform values along all axes
	5.	identical - coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles" Synonyms: superposable

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

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