palindrome
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palindromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (palin, “back, again, back again”) + δρόμος (dromos, “running, race, racecourse”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
palindrome (plural palindromes)
- A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
- Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes.
- A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
- (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
Derived terms[edit]
- (genetics): massive palindrome
Translations[edit]
a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards
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Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek πάλιν (palin, “again”) + -drome "course", "road".
Noun[edit]
palindrome m (plural palindromes)
