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/aɪdˈɛntɪkəl/ /aɪdˈɛnɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Identical adj.

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."

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."

Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

Identical, Identic adj. 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.

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Etymology of 'Identical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Dawkins and Mr. Sanford assert that the cave-lion is only a large variety of the existing lion—identical in species. Herodotus says: "The camels in the army of Xerxes, near the mountains of ...

— The Christian Foundation, April, 1880

... said Alan; and, taking the instrument from his rival, he first played the same spring in a manner identical with Robin's; and then wandered into variations, which, as he went on, he decorated with a perfect flight of grace-notes, such as pipers love, and ...

— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various

... ruling which was markedly heavier than the rest, and another which was so faint as to be almost undistinguishable. "Defects like these often run through a number of consecutive sheets," said he. "If we could find the identical half-quire from which this was taken, I might show you proof that would dispel every doubt," and taking up the one that lay on top, he rapidly counted the sheets. There were but eight. "It might have been taken ...

— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green

... produced in Japan, and there is some reason to suppose that the Japanese may have founded their methods in imitating the prints taken from Europe by missionaries. Major Strange says: "The European art of chiaroscuro engraving is in all essentials identical with that of Japanese colour-printing.... It seems, therefore, not vain to point out that the accidental sight of one of the Italian colour-prints may have suggested the process to the Japanese." The Italians aimed more at expressing "relief" and the Japanese ...

— Wood-Block Printing - A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice • F. Morley Fletcher

... recollected every thing perfectly. There was the nameless village, looking exactly the same, but no longer nameless; for a wooden board was suspended over the steamboat landing, with "Pocobasset" painted upon it in large letters. Pretty soon the steamboat came along, the same identical steamboat, and down the river they went, past all the tiny islands and wooded capes which she remembered so well; only the light was of sunset now instead of sun-rising, and the trees, which then were tinged with coming spring, now bore the red and yellow leaves ...

— Eyebright - A Story • Susan Coolidge

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