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identical

When you're looking for exact replicas, don't waste your time on snowflakes or fingerprints; no two are identical, or exactly the same.

Great mind may think alike, but they'll never be identical. Twins, on the other hand, very well may be — if they've come from the same split embryo that is. It makes sense then, that the word identical has linguistic roots in the Latin word idem, meaning "the same."

DEFINITIONS OF: identical

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adj being the exact same one; not any other:

“this is the identical room we stayed in before”
Synonyms:
selfsame, very
same
same in identity

adj exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different

“rows of identical houses”
“cars identical except for their license plates”
Synonyms:
indistinguishable
same
closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree

adj coinciding exactly when superimposed

identical triangles”
Synonyms:
superposable
congruent
coinciding when superimposed

adj having properties with uniform values along all axes

Synonyms
isotropic, isotropous
invariant with respect to direction

adj (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum

identical twins are monovular”
Synonyms:
monovular
Antonyms:
biovular, fraternal
(of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova
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