Adjective

(en adjective)

Consisting of many different elements; various.

Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.

* J. Edwards

The word is used in a sense very diverse from its original import.

* R. Browning

Our roads are diverse : farewell, love! said she.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

Capable of various forms; multiform.

* Ben Jonson

Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.

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, passage=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.}}

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(not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.

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passage=Nor could I myself look upon this man without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical  person who had picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, he was!}}

(not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.

(not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.

(comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.

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The terms of Article 8th are still more identical .

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