identical meaning
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- Identical may refer to:
- Identical (novel), a 2008 young adult novel
- Identical particles, particles that cannot be distinguished from one another
- Identical twins, two offspring resulting from the same pregnancy in which a single egg is fertilized
- NounPLidenticalsSUF-al
- (usually pluralized, chiefly philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
- An identical twin.
- (usually pluralized, chiefly philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
- AdjectiveCOMmore identicalSUPmost identical
- (not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
- By this means as many absolutely identical plates can be produced as may be required, and being hardened they will yield a very large number of prints without any appreciable deterioration.
- (not comparable) 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.
- (not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
- (not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.
- (comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
- (not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- All amplified lnuA gene fragments showed nearly identical sequence identity, even though the harboring strains were isolated from two different types of jeotgal.
- Due to difficulty culturing the WY-A2 strain in MMH broth, cysteine heart agar with 9% chocolatized sheep blood (CHAB) was used under identical incubation settings as the strains above.
- The ritual and tradition are of course rather absurd, but the principle is good and the ethics are identical with Xtian ethics.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of identical in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -al
- Words suffixed with -al
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en identicals
- en identically
- en identicality
- en identicalness
- en identical twin
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "identical" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.