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English Dictionary: identical	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
identical adj exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats" Synonym(s): identical, indistinguishable 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" Synonym(s): identical, selfsame(a), very(a) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical twins are monovular" Synonym(s): identical, monovular Antonym(s): biovular, fraternal having properties with uniform values along all axes coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles" Synonym(s): identical, superposable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Identic \Iden"tic\, Identical* \Iden"tical\, a. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Identical \Iden"tical\, a. [Cf. F. identique. See {Identity}.] 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.