01 a. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.
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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.
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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.
Phrases & compounds
Identical equation —
an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.