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Identical   /aɪdˈɛntɪkəl/  /aɪdˈɛnɪkəl/   Listen
Identical

adjective
1.
Exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different.  Synonym: indistinguishable.  "Cars identical except for their license plates" , "They wore indistinguishable hats"
2.
Being the exact same one; not any other:.  Synonyms: selfsame, very.  "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"
3.
(of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum.  Synonym: monovular.
4.
Having properties with uniform values along all axes.
5.
Coinciding exactly when superimposed.  Synonym: superposable.



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... his authority. They differ in the time of the event (John assigns to first Passover, synoptics to the last) and in a possibly greater sternness in the synoptic account. These differences are no greater than appear in other records of identical events (compare Mt. viii. 5-13 with Lk. vii. 2-10), while the repetition of such an act would probably have been met by serious opposition. If the temple was cleansed but once, John indicates the true time. At the beginning of the ...
— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees
... Cohen's translation (Appendix II.) is preceded by an Italian version (Appendix I.), taken directly from Muratori's edition of Marin Sanudo's Vite dei Dogi (Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, 1733, xii. 628-635). The two versions are by no means identical. Cohen's "translation" is, presumably an accurate rendering of Sanudo's text, and must have been made either from the original MS. or from a transcript sent from Italy to England. Muratori's Italian is a rifacimento of the original, which has ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... something even greater than beauty, something that is food for reflection and imagination, the source of quick-coming fancies. Compare the picture of the pines in Brooke's poem Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening, with Browning's treatment of an identical theme in Paracelsus, remembering that Browning's lines were written when he was twenty-two years ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... be observed, that people have generally the identical faults and vices they accuse others of; ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 19, No. 531, Saturday, January 28, 1832. • Various
... the window might, indeed, have been part of the identical stretch of country which the youthful ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy


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