indistinguishable

adjective

in·dis·tin·guish·able | \ ˌin-di-ˈstiŋ-gwi-shə-bəl

How to pronounce indistinguishable (audio)

, -ˈstiŋ-wi-\

Definition of indistinguishable

: not distinguishable: such as

a : indeterminate in shape or structure indistinguishable forms in the mist

b : not clearly recognizable or understandable indistinguishable differences

c : lacking identifying or individualizing qualities seemingly indistinguishable alternatives

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Other Words from indistinguishable

indistinguishability \ ˌin-di-ˌstiŋ-gwi-shə-ˈbi-lə-tē

, -ˌstiŋ-wi- \ noun

indistinguishableness \ ˌin-di-ˈstiŋ-gwi-shə-bəl-nəs

, -ˈstiŋ-wi- \ noun

indistinguishably \ ˌin-di-ˈstiŋ-gwi-shə-blē

, -ˈstiŋ-wi- \ adverb

Examples of indistinguishable in a Sentence

indistinguishable differences that can be measured only electronically indistinguishable shapes in the fog

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In the future, a conversation with a digital assistant will be indistinguishable from one with a person, according to Rohit Prasad. — Laura Stevens, WSJ, "‘Alexa, Can You Be Empathetic, All-Knowing and Funny?’," 7 Mar. 2019 And by the time he was done, the government’s case looked statistically indistinguishable from roadkill. — Felix Gillette, Bloomberg.com, "Get Ready for Big Media to Get Bigger After AT&T Victory," 13 June 2018 From a distance the Zero is indistinguishable from any other concours-quality, drop-dead gorgeous Series 1.5 roadster (with the covered headlamps), except for the absence of the low-slung dual exhaust pipes. — WSJ, "1968 Jaguar E-Type Zero: Revamping the Vintage Roadster as an Electric Car," 5 Oct. 2018 From the outside, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s laboratory in Beltsville, Md. is indistinguishable from any of the dozens of other federal facilities that dot the Washington D.C. suburbs. — Andrew O'reilly, Fox News, "USDA kitten killing comes under fire from bipartisan group of lawmakers," 19 Sep. 2018 At that point, the survival rates in the two groups looked indistinguishable: Nine in 10 of the women who didn’t get chemo were still alive, as were nine in 10 of the women who got chemo. — Julia Belluz, Vox, "Many breast cancer patients don’t need chemo, a precision medicine study just found," 5 June 2018 This biographical detail is especially ironic for Clinton, the prolific maestro who got the world dancing to Parliament Funkadelic, a psychedelic musical collective that's indistinguishable from rainbow dreads and technolocolor Afrofuturist garb. — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, "George Clinton on Jumping Out of Spaceships in 9-Inch Heels and That Time He Called Out Prince," 23 Oct. 2018 Parity had been considered a fundamental symmetry in physics, holding that our world is indistinguishable from its mirror image. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Nobel-prize winning physicist who coined “god particle” dead at 96," 3 Oct. 2018 In the field of computer science, one of the great unsolved problems is to pass the Turing Test by building a robot so advanced as to be indistinguishable from a human. — WSJ, "Facebook Robots: Turning The Turing Test on Its Head," 29 July 2018

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