identically

From identical + -ly.

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈdɛntɪkəli/

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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

• identically zero

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “identically”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “identically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.