identical

Definitions

1. adjective

   Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.

   Examples

   • My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought.
   • By this means as many absolutely identical plates can be produced as may be required, and being hardened they will yield a very large number of prints without any appreciable deterioration.
   ≈same
2. adjective

   Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.

   Example

   • Nor could I myself look upon this man without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, he was!
   ≈same≈selfsame
3. adjective

   Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.

   ≈monozygotic≈monovular
4. adjective

   Exactly equivalent.

5. adjective

   Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.

   Example

   • The terms of Article 8th are still more identical.
6. noun

   Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.

7. noun

   An identical twin.

   Example

   • Fraternal twins are boy-girl pairs as often as of the same sex, while identicals are necessarily of the same sex, […]
8. noun

   A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".

   Example

   • The strictest construction of the rule requires complete and unvarying repetition of end-words, but some license is granted in the use of identicals.