identical Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different
    indistinguishable.
    • rows of identical houses
    • cars identical except for their license plates
    • they wore indistinguishable hats
  2. adjective satellite being the exact same one; not any other:
    very; selfsame.
    • 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
  3. adjective (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum
    monovular.
    • identical twins are monovular
  4. adjective satellite having properties with uniform values along all axes
  5. adjective satellite coinciding exactly when superimposed
    superposable.
    • identical triangles

WordNet

I*den"tic*al adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. identique. See Identity.
Definitions
  1. 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. Reid.
  2. 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. Fleming.

Webster 1913