Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word IDENTICAL

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Definitions of IDENTICAL

1. An identical twin.
2. (not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
3. (not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
4. (not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
5. (not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.
6. (comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
7. (usually, pluralized, chiefly, philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
8. (poetry) A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".

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Examples of Using IDENTICAL in a Sentence

• An alpha particle is identical to the nucleus of a helium-4 atom, which consists of two protons and two neutrons.
• Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes (Against the Letter of Philip) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes' Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by Anaximenes.
• This means that for every feature that one sees in the frequency response of the analog filter, there is a corresponding feature, with identical gain and phase shift, in the frequency response of the digital filter but, perhaps, at a somewhat different frequency.
• Cosmology as a science originated with the Copernican principle, which implies that celestial bodies obey identical physical laws to those on Earth, and Newtonian mechanics, which first allowed those physical laws to be understood.
• A cuboctahedron has 12 identical vertices, with 2 triangles and 2 squares meeting at each, and 24 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a square.
• Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means.
• The rules are identical to those of Scrabble, except that valid plays are only required to form anagrams of acceptable words; in other words, the letters in a word do not need to be placed in the correct order.
• The double jeopardy protection in criminal prosecutions bars only an identical prosecution for the same offence; however, a different offence may be charged on identical evidence at a second trial.
• They commonly contain two copies of the information, either in the form of a single tag that can be broken in half, or as two identical tags on the same chain.
• Compared to the emitted frequency, the received frequency is higher during the approach, identical at the instant of passing by, and lower during the recession.
• In molecular biology, DNA replication is the biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.
• The word has been in use in English since 1615, and is derived from Late Latin aera "an era or epoch from which time is reckoned," probably identical to Latin æra "counters used for calculation," plural of æs "brass, money".
• Fick's first law can be used to derive his second law which in turn is identical to the diffusion equation.
• In this case, the groups G and H are called isomorphic; they differ only in the notation of their elements (except of identity element) and are identical for all practical purposes.
• Functionally identical to BASICA, its BASIC interpreter is a fully self-contained executable and does not need the Cassette BASIC ROM found in the original.
• An icosidodecahedron has 30 identical vertices, with two triangles and two pentagons meeting at each, and 60 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a pentagon.
• In quantum mechanics, indistinguishable particles (also called identical or indiscernible particles) are particles that cannot be distinguished from one another, even in principle.
• John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Cell division by mitosis is an equational division which gives rise to genetically identical cells in which the total number of chromosomes is maintained.
• The MTU relates to, but is not identical to the maximum frame size that can be transported on the data link layer, e.
• In physics, the no-cloning theorem states that it is impossible to create an independent and identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state, a statement which has profound implications in the field of quantum computing among others.
• Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.
• The PDP-10's architecture is almost identical to that of DEC's earlier PDP-6, sharing the same 36-bit word length and slightly extending the instruction set.
• Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges congruent), and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.
• If a line drawing is traced by the first point, an identical, enlarged, or miniaturized copy will be drawn by a pen fixed to the other.

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