IDENTICALLY

identically

(adverb) with complete identity; in an identical manner; “he is fitted with an identically similar one”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

identically (comparative more identically, superlative most identically)

In an identical manner.

(math) In terms of an identity.

Source: Wiktionary


I*den"tic*al*ly, adv.

Definition: In an identical manner; with respect to identity. "Identically the same." Bp. Warburton. "Identically different." Ross.

IDENTICAL

I*den"tic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. identique. See Identity.]

1. 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.

2. 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. Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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