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identical

[ahy-den-ti-kuhl, ih-den-]

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adjective

similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.

being the very same; selfsame: This is the identical room we stayed in last year.

agreeing exactly: identical opinions.

Origin:
1610–20; < Medieval Latin identic(us) identic + -al¹

Related forms

i·den·ti·cal·ly, adverb

i·den·ti·cal·ness, noun

non·i·den·ti·cal, adjective

pseu·do·i·den·ti·cal, adjective

qua·si-i·den·ti·cal, adjective

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qua·si-i·den·ti·cal·ly, adverb

un·i·den·ti·cal, adjective

un·i·den·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
3. congruous, congruent, equal, matching.

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Her only hope for survival was a transplant from a healthy identical twin.

Instead the walls are lined with row after row of identical plaques.

On the face of things, the outcomes are identical in both situations.

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Her only hope for survival was a transplant from a healthy identical twin.

Instead the walls are lined with row after row of identical plaques.

On the face of things, the outcomes are identical in both situations.

Animals and their clones, though, don't always look identical.

At first glance identical twins seem, well, identical.

Two castes of paper wasps are genetically identical.

If you raise these tasty posies with identical care, you can pluck them from your own garden for dining.

The company decides that they will retrofit a number of identical planes and refuel in the air.

Identical twins were slightly closer in age when they died than were fraternal twins.

The buildings have identical heights and footprints, but their entrances tell the story of architecture's evolution.

Those figures have remained almost identical for three years in a row-and are down on those of a decade ago.

Fill five identical plastic bottles with varying amounts of water.

Being identical to human hormones means they are unpatentable.

Planted, they will produce trees similar but not identical to their two parent trees.

Be sure to make the leg pairs mirror images of each other, not identical.

The image reveals that the second jet is perfectly identical to its twin, with symmetrical knots and whorls of material.

There are no identical units in art, because no two works are ever absolutely similar, making exact calculation impossible.

Last year, two identical copies of one of these comp journals began to arrive.

Most of the mothers were pairs of sisters, but some were identical twins or first cousins raised as sisters.

Juvenile: nearly identical to adult, but with whitish tips to the outer webs of the secondaries, tertials.

The experiment looks to see which particle arrives first under identical conditions.

Henry has created a standard calendar that is identical from year to year.

Suppose you put take two identical cans of soda out of the fridge and place them on the floor in the middle of a room.

The sound quality is not yet identical to that of a real performance, though.

Cash will become identical to social points, which is the ultimate point of the money system anyway.

Once the walls are constructed, however, all the corals look virtually identical.

Moreover, it is also obvious that identical twins are treated more similarly than fraternal twins.

Most chess sets come with opposed sets of identical pieces.

Therefore, genes are likely behind any trait that is similar in identical twins more often than in fraternal twins.

They begin to believe in their work as identical with the public good.

By mid-spring, her brood can number thousands of genetically identical descendants.

The radio waves that pulse from the poles are identical to each other.

And scores were significantly more matched between identical as opposed to fraternal twins.

Joe doll was identical to that of his white counterpart, merely painted brown.

Physically, the phone is nearly identical to the previous generation.

What's right for one person may not be for another, even if both have identical levels of risk capacity.

Globalisation is the more or less simultaneous marketing and sale of identical goods and services around the world.

Its embryo began to split in two-the process that gives rise to identical twins-but then failed to fully separate.

Scenes without dialogue, for example, might be identical in both language versions.

In fact, it's nearly identical to its predecessor, albeit with a new story and hundreds of new puzzles.

Otherwise the reading interface on the two apps is identical.

Cut out two identical pieces of cotton flannel using the diaper pattern and a pair of fabric scissors.

If there are indeed many identical copies of you, the traditional notion of determinism evaporates.

Incoming photons excite the atoms in the material, and make them spit out more identical photons.

They must have used a cheap one, though, if the papers were identical.

Like human fingerprints, no two snow crystals are identical.

Fowler and his colleagues thus turned to identical and fraternal twins.

The two controls are each against a chemically identical amorphous solid or achiral single crystal.

Identical twins have the same genome but are never the same people.

And still, they displayed identical responses without having seen pride and shame expressions.

They are created by joining identical cubes at their faces.

Hide enough weight inside the smaller one so that its weight is identical to that of the larger object.

In this case the blockade is a so-called momentum barrier between two identical molecules experiencing mutual repulsion.

He feels that designs today are stamped out in identical dyes and that the art of making things by hand has been too long lost.

It poses two logically identical problems, one cast in general terms and the other in terms of a social contract.

The celebration welcomes fraternal and identical twins.

Zary said that doesn't mean performance will be identical across the zone:.

She asked college students, male and female, to write brief stories based on almost identical cues.

The dissertation and research components may be essentially identical.

Under identical conditions, they behave in different ways.

Protocol works in an identical fashion at other levels in academe.

She began her experiment by taking two populations of the same virus and changing their environments in identical ways.

View two seemingly identical photographs and find the differences between the images.

The similarity in orgasm experience was greater in identical twins than it was in non-identical twins, researchers said.

If one identical twin scores high in psychopathy, the other is likely to as well, more so than if the twins are fraternal.

New aviation biofuel made from soybeans and other crops proves identical to oil-based kerosene.

Studies of identical twins show that, when one sibling is.

Many animals and plants are clones, usually identical copies of.

Google helped me find an identical paper in a few seconds.

Twins can be genetically identical or they can be as different as siblings that were born at.

Pantherines, especially tigris and leo have an identical skeletal structure, and yet they consitute two different species.

He bought some mice, bred them and produced the first inbred strain of genetically identical rodents.

These stories about identical twin sisters contain lessons about individuality for young readers.

Apparently identical cancers in two patients may behave so unlike as to appear utterly different diseases.

In each test, an animal was allowed to enter a room after food had been concealed inside one of two identical opaque containers.

His early results have shown identical twins to be far more likely than fraternal twins to have a similar opinion of cilantro.

Closed, it looks almost identical to any other bookbindery case.

Multiple intelligences put every child on an equal footing, granting the hope of identical value in an ostensible meritocracy.

To control for luck, the games were identical and reversed:.

Identical twins look the same and are the same gender.

The human genome is also almost identical to pigs, and yet it's apparent that humans and pigs are different.

Shards are the result of putting identical copies of an online game onto separate, clustered servers.

Their identical faces have acquired the same wrinkles.

One option is to send the identical email again, with no reference to the first email.

Or perhaps it's because the third-person masculine singular conjugation of the past tense appears identical to the root itself.

Not close to killer whales genetically, the false killer whale has a nearly identical skull shape, hence it was given that name.

The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect.

In fact, from fish due to the identical gills displayed in the human embryo.

Vote totals in two separate databases that should have been identical had different totals.

Mathé‘s was called the first successful bone marrow transplant not performed on identical twins.

The researchers looked for regions of chromosomes that were identical among a large proportion of the sibling sets.

But the new study found that in addition, both groups rely on identical brain structures for similar tasks.

It told of a colossal battle between two essentially identical armies of robots.

More important, the flashes of temper are almost identical.

The book's structure and topics are almost identical to those of many current composition manuals.

Studies of identical and non-identical twins confirm that.

In this type of eye an array of identical imaging units.

If you divide a fractal pattern into parts you get a nearly identical reduced-size copy of the whole.

The pay gap between men and women of identical qualifications.

No, the ad was identical except for the deadline date.

The programme is also offered in a two-year modular format with an identical curriculum.

Some carnivorous plants that look nearly identical turn out to be distantly related.

Identical twins also can exchange these microchimeric cells through their shared placenta.

Wine lists often have multiple vintages in a row, and names can sound similar, or even identical.

The committee reviewed my case the following academic year, although its composition had remained almost identical.

Perhaps the best sequence in the film shows pairs of posters using almost identical designs:.

The arm behaved in an identical fashion to what it would in a healthy octopus.

Other tests have been conducted with the same identical conclusions.

Marsh smell is from non-anthropogenic reduced sulfur compounds, similar if not identical to that all-familiar pulp mill aroma.

The meals looked more or less identical and were rated by the volunteers as tasting equally pleasurable.

The vintage nature of the materials ensures that no two pieces are exactly identical.

The two talks may even be on identical subjects, but one carries much more weight.

Structurally it may seem identical to all the others.

The atoms' physical properties, such as their motions, became identical to one another.

She then placed an identical empty nest site at the opposite end of the ants' territory.

Sending identical letters for multiple students is also a bad idea.

All the buildings are impersonal-the window washers have made them sparkle, but they are identical and forgettable.

Comparison of results from identical and non-identical twins might reveal a genetic component.

They say that cloned meat is scientifically identical to meat from traditionally bred animals.

Interestingly, all of the postings are written in nearly identical styles.

The vast majority of them have the same identical nucleotide change.

Maridueña's home computer only hours after identical work was discovered on.

It is simply not true that the program offerings are identical or even nearly so at community colleges and career colleges.

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World English Dictionary

identical (aɪˈdɛntɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	Also called: numerically identical being one and the same individual: Cicero and Tully are identical
2.	Also called: quantitatively identical exactly alike, equal, or agreeing
3.	Compare fraternal designating either or both of a pair of twins of the same sex who developed from a single fertilized ovum that split into two

[C17: from Medieval Latin identicus, from Latin idem the same]

i'dentically

—*adv*

i'denticalness

—n

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Word Origin & History

identical

1620, as a term in logic, from M.L. identicus "the same," from L.L. identitas "identity," ult. from L. idem "the same" (from id "it, that one") + demonstrative suffix -dem. Replaced M.E. idemptical, from M.L. idemptitas, from L. idem.

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Medical Dictionary

identical i·den·ti·cal (ī-děn'tĭ-kəl)
adj.

Exactly equal and alike.
Of or relating to a twin or twins developed from the same fertilized ovum and having the same genetic makeup and closely similar appearance; monozygotic.

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