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identically

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    From identical + -ly.

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    Adverb

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    identically (comparative more identically, superlative most identically)

    1. In an identical manner.
      It was hard to tell the twins apart: they even spoke identically.
      • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
        It was inevitable that such a system should lead to the wide use of nicknames to distinguish identically named members of a family []
    2. (mathematics) In terms of an identity.
      two expressions that are identically equal to each other

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