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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Identic \I*den"tic\, Identical \I*den"tic*al\, 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 \I*den"tic*al\, 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: identical adj 1: exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats" [syn: {indistinguishable}] 2: 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" [syn: {one and the same(p)}, {selfsame(a)}, {very(a)}] 3: (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical twins are monovular" [syn: {monovular}] [ant: {fraternal}] 4: (physics) having properties with uniform values along all axes 5: coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles" [syn: {superposable}]
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