identical

adj 1: exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different;

"rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for

their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable

hats" [syn: {indistinguishable}]

2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "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" [syn: {one

and the same(p)}, {selfsame(a)}, {very(a)}]

3: (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical

twins are monovular" [syn: {monovular}] [ant: {fraternal}]

4: (physics) having properties with uniform values along all

axes

5: coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles"

[syn: {superposable}]