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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
identical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
identical twin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ They were almost identical, yet they looked different.
▪ George Magnus's forecast is almost identical.
▪ But while axeheads from different societies may perform widely differing social functions, the axeheads themselves may be almost identical.
▪ Sometimes Saccani speeds up where Dorati slows down, other times their tempos are almost identical.
▪ Pollen was an almost identical diet and it still remains a most important prize.
▪ Nixon had advocated an almost identical program in the 1960 campaign.
▪ Another almost identical box, with attached headphones, was moved over the ground and a continual tone was emitted.
▪ Although built by Brush instead of Milnes, the bodies of these cars were almost identical to those of Corporation Nos. 46-55.
essentially
▪ The coverage of these chapters is essentially identical to the general instrumental analysis texts listed at the back of the chapters.
▪ It did not produce new concepts or frameworks, although it did prevent unneeded competition among essentially identical approaches bearing different names.
▪ Both peptides have essentially identical biological activities.
▪ I found the Honda and Toyota management principles essentially identical.
genetically
▪ That is because commercial grapevines are propagated from cuttings and are genetically identical clones.
▪ The influence of heredity is best studied in genetically identical twins.
▪ Megan and Morag in a sense are genetically identical twins, but their significance is greater than that.
▪ Megan and Morag are simply the two survivors from a much larger, genetically identical group.
nearly
▪ Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.
▪ Consumer groups have complained that the existing two-company system has led to nearly identical prices and plans.
▪ The mean proliferation indices within compartments were nearly identical for both assays.
▪ The men and women appeared androgynous, with similar short haircuts and nearly identical loose-fitting clothing.
▪ With a glue like casein the various effects cancel out so that the wet and dry strength of practical joints are nearly identical.
▪ I landed between two women in their sixties with nearly identical hairdos.
▪ It was produced by Scott McCarron and Bruce Lietzke, two guys who use nearly identical putters that look like garden rakes.
▪ Mavis had her eye on two older men, the Arsenault brothers, nearly identical in height and build-were they twins?
virtually
▪ It was just that they were all in profile and virtually identical.
▪ Its atomic properties turned out to be virtually identical with the Murmansk uranium.
▪ Unless Labour develops its policies the next election will be a battle between two parties with virtually identical economic policies.
▪ The prices of forward exchange and futures contract are virtually identical once contracts have same maturity dates. 8.
▪ However for AEs the figures were virtually identical with those of standard entrants. 2% more SEs gained good degrees than NSEs.
▪ On Northumbrian moors the red grouse and the black grouse live in virtually identical habitats.
▪ However the proportions of SEs and NSEs gaining upper seconds were virtually identical at 28% and 27.9% respectively.
▪ The story of the Enewetak islanders is virtually identical.
■ NOUN
twin
▪ Surprisingly, identical twins rarely arise from the separation into two cells at the two-cell stage.
▪ Even identical twins raised in the same home can not be assumed to have had the same experiences.
▪ Seeing double - identical twins, Georgina and Rachel Spruce 20, from Walsall.
▪ But how do these studies explain identical twins who are not identical for alcoholism?
▪ Incidentally, what is the concordance in schizophrenia in identical twins?
▪ Do identical twins, who are after all clones, share a soul?
▪ But this study has, for the first time, clearly demonstrated a genetic difference between concordant and discordant identical twins.
▪ If one identical twin is gay, the chances that his brother is also gay are 50 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The picture is identical to the one in the museum of Modern Art in New York.
▪ The tablets were identical in size, shape, and colour.
▪ three identical statues
▪ To me the two patterns looked identical.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consumer groups have complained that the existing two-company system has led to nearly identical prices and plans.
▪ I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.
▪ It is a striking feature of quantum mechanics, however, that for identical particles the rules are different.
▪ Obviously, all the team kites should be of identical design for aesthetic and performance reasons.
▪ On two grounds, then, humans are identical to the world; for this we have both cosmological and anthropological data.
▪ The number of seconds that have passed since your births remains identical.
▪ Twins, being of identical ages, are usually even better matched on environmental variables during upbringing than are siblings.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Identical

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.

Identical

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
identical

1610s, as a term in logic, from Medieval Latin identicus "the same," from Late Latin identitas "identity, sameness," ultimately from comb. form of Latin idem "the same" (from id "it, that one;" see id) + demonstrative suffix -dem. General sense of "being the same or very similar" is from 1630s. Replaced Middle English idemptical (late 15c.), from Medieval Latin idemptitas "identity," from Latin idem. Related: Identically.

Wiktionary
identical

a. (context not comparable English) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable. n. (context usually pluralized chiefly philosophy English) Something which has exactly the same property as something else.

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WordNet
identical

  1. adj. 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. having properties with uniform values along all axes

  5. coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles" [syn: superposable]

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Wikipedia
Identical

Identical may refer to:

  • Identical (novel), a 2008 young adult novel
  • Identical particles, particles that cannot be distinguished from one another
  • Identical twins, two offspring resulting from the same pregnancy in which a single egg is fertilized
Identical (novel)

Identical is Ellen Hopkins' fifth novel. The book released in August 2008 and has hit the New York Times Bestsellers list. Hopkins has stated that "Some of the material for the book came from friends, friends who are now strong successful women and you would never guess that abuse is in their past".

Usage examples of "identical".

Einstein significantly extended this symmetry by showing that the laws of physics are actually identical for all observers, even if they are undergoing complicated accelerated motion.

It sat on a white plate identical to that on which the first acorn rested.

The topics insisted on, however, were for the most part identical with those which had for a series of years been repeatedly adduced in the commons, so that a repetition of them is unnecessary.

Most business owners -do not really understand that yellow page advertising is based upon the identical principles that apply to all creative messa i .

Unwrapping it, Alec found a tool roll identical to the one Seregil always carried.

To TRANSLTR all codes looked identical, regardless of which algorithm wrote them.

Although it was not identical to his own, he sensed a reaching out from her alienness to his humanness.

This is a volatile alkaloid which is not poisonous, and is thought to be almost identical with ammonia.

We still had no idea about the sex of the babies, but we did know from the amnio that they were identical.

But to continue, we will say that Chester and Albert had four children apiece, two boys and two girls, two pairs of identical twins, each.

Neill is clearly of opinion that the Captains of the MAY-FLOWER and the DISCOVERY were identical, and this belief is shared by such authorities in Pilgrim literature as Young, Prince, Goodwin, and Davis, and against this formidable consensus of opinion, Arber, unless better supported, can hardly hope to prevail.

Crates identical with those in which the Argyle treasures had been shipped from the old museum.

An Artefact, or rather, a set of ten identical ones, for use in Pursuit Team training.

The very notion of power must be scrutinized lest in this ascription we be really making power identical with Essential Act, and even with Act not yet achieved.

Across the capital city, identical sounds and fragrances were rising from a hundred thousand chaukats as mothers blessed their husbands and firstborns and prayed for an auspicious start to the sowing season.