Dictionary Definition
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 having properties with uniform values along all
axes
5 coinciding exactly when superimposed;
"identical triangles" [syn: superposable]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Exactly equivalent to; bearing full likeness.
- Of twins: that share the same genetic code.
- Exactly equivalent
Derived terms
Translations
exactly equivalent to
- Dutch: identiek, identieke
- Finnish: identtinen, yhtäläinen
- German: identisch
- Hungarian: azonos
- Italian: identico, identica
- Japanese: 同一の
of twins: that share the same genetic code
mathematics: exactly equivalent
- Japanese: 同一の
References
Extensive Definition
In quantum
mechanics, identity of particles of the same kind (say,
electrons) mathematically results in profound consequences for
their collective behavior - quantum
statistics of bosons
and fermions.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alike,
all one, all the same, aped, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, bipartisan, bipartite, coequal, comparable, consimilar, consubstantial, convertible, coordinate, copied, correspondent, corresponding, counterfeit, dichotomous, double, duadic, dual, dualistic, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, dyadic, equal, equiparant, equipollent, equivalent, ersatz, exact, exactly alike, fake, favoring, following, homogeneous, homoousian, identic, imitated, imitation, indistinguishable,
interchangeable,
just alike, like, matched, matching, mimicked, mock, much the same, nearly
reproduced, not unlike, one,
phony, resembling, same, selfsame, similar, simulated, smacking of,
something like, suggestive of, synthetic, tantamount, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-sided, undifferent, uniform with,
very, without difference,
without distinction