identical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
communications
human-sciences
journalism
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
philosophy
poetry
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English identic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English identical
From identic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more identical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most identical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: identicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
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.
For example, assume that 10000 identical chairs were produced through incurring the following costs:...
The zygote soon divides into two identical cells.
gloss: Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The best of the joke, too, is, that the very coal-merchant who is loudest in his complaints against the person who defrauded him, is the identical man who sat in the centre of the very front row of the pit last night and laughed the most boisterously at this very same thing,--and not so well done either.
These men were grandsons of a certain Guntram, who, according to some authorities, is identical with a Count Guntram who flourished during the reign of the emperor Otto the Great, and whose ancestry can be traced back to the time of the Merovingian kings.
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!
gloss: Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Exactly equivalent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
rare
examples: The terms of Article 8th are still more identical.
gloss: Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
pos: noun
gloss: An identical twin.
pos: noun
examples: Fraternal twins are boy-girl pairs as often as of the same sex, while identicals are necessarily of the same sex, […]
gloss: A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".
pos: noun
examples: The strictest construction of the rule requires complete and unvarying repetition of end-words, but some license is granted in the use of identicals.
Synonyms: identical
indifferent
nondifferent
one and the same
self
undifferent
undifferentiated
Antonyms: contrasting
different
distinct
non-identical
opposite
Related words: identify
identity
Derived words: alloidentical
bioidentical
half-identical
haploidentical
identical by descent
identical by state
identicalism
identicality
identically
identicalness
identical twin
nonidentical
self-identical
semi-identical
semperidentical
unidentical
indiscernibility of identicals
Translations: