identical

CEFRC1

/ɪˈdɛntɪkl̩/

adjective

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In plain English

01
adjective
Exactly the same in every way.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
Exactly equivalent.

In context

My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought.
I delivered identical twins.
For example, assume that 10000 identical chairs were produced through incurring the following costs:...

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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.
1911, “Bank-Notes”, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Fraternal twins are boy-girl pairs as often as of the same sex, while identicals are necessarily of the same sex, […]
2014, Robert S. Woodworth, Donald G. Marquis, Psychology (Psychology Revivals): A Study of Mental Life, page 171
The strictest construction of the rule requires complete and unvarying repetition of end-words, but some license is granted in the use of identicals.
1992, Clarence Hugh Holman, William Harmon, A Handbook to Literature, page 439
The zygote soon divides into two identical cells.
1988, John Byrum, Cells
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.
1837, Charles Dickens, The Pantomime of Life

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From identic + -al.