identical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum

   identical twins are monovular

2. 2
   adj

   coinciding exactly when superimposed

   identical triangles

3. 3
   adj

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

   My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought.

4. 4
   adj

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

   The best of the joke, too, is, that the very coal-merchant who is loudest in his complaints against the person who defrauded him, is the identical man who sat in the centre of the very front row of the pit last night and laughed the most boisterously at this very same thing,--and not so well done either.

5. 5
   adj

   Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.

   The terms of Article 8th are still more identical.

6. 6
   noun

   An identical twin.

   Fraternal twins are boy-girl pairs as often as of the same sex, while identicals are necessarily of the same sex, […]

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   having properties with uniform values along all axes

Etymology

From identic + -al.