identical
iden·ti·cal
adjective
1.
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”
3.
5.
Origin
From identic + -al.
Phrases
- identical by descent
- identical by state
- identical twin
- indiscernibility of identicals
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