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/aɪdˈɛntɪkəl/ /aɪdˈɛnɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Identical adj.

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."

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."

Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

Identical, Identic adj. 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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... seventeenth years at the house of General Sowinski's wife in the course of "a few quarter-hours." The Variations sur un air national allemand were published after the composer's death along with his Sonata, Op. 4, by Haslinger, of Vienna, in 1851. They are, no doubt, the identical composition of which Chopin in a letter from Vienna (December 1, 1830) writes: "Haslinger received me very kindly, but nevertheless would publish neither the Sonata nor the Second Variations." The First Variations were those on La ci darem, Op. 2, the first ...

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... I am; sorry to have kept you waiting so long, but business must be attended to.—Dear me, why the mutton is really quite cold," continued Nicholas, thrusting a large piece into his mouth, quite forgetting that he had already dined twice off the identical joint. "That's a fine watch of Mr Tobin's; but I think that my improvement upon the duplex when I have ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... what has been said, it is evident that flexion and extension of stifle and hock are identical in their action. When the stifle is extended, the hock is automatically extended, nor can it under any circumstances flex without the previous flexion of the stifle. There is no parallel to this in the body. The two joints, ...

— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix

... was nearly identical with that of July 21, 1861. The only difference was, that the Confederates occupied the ground formerly held by the Federal troops, and that the latter attacked, as Johnston and Beauregard had attacked, from the direction of Manassas, and the tableland ...

— A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke

... college, in a little group of Dons who were discussing with great subtlety and ardour the question of retaining Greek in the entrance examinations of the university. It seemed to Hugh that the arguments employed must be identical with those that might formerly have been used to justify the retention of Hebrew in the curriculum—the advisability of making acquaintance at first hand with a noble literature, the mental discipline to be obtained; "Greek has such a noble grammar!" said one ...

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