Identical equation
(gcide) | Identical \I*den"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. identique. See Identity.]
1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as,
the identical person or thing.
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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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2. Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the
predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the
subject; tautological.
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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.
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Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for
all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.
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