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identical

//ɪˈdɛntɪkl̩//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for identical

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Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
more identical
Superlative
most identical

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
identicals

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.

    • The zygote soon divides into two identical cells.
    • My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought.
    • For example, assume that 10000 identical chairs were produced through incurring the following costs:..
  2. 2.Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.

  3. 3.Exactly equivalent.

  4. 4.Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.

    • 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!

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.

  2. 2.A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".

    • The strictest construction of the rule requires complete and unvarying repetition of end-words, but some license is granted in the use of identicals.
  3. 3.An identical twin.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4229

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From identic + -al.

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