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Meaning
Noun
●
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.
●
A
poetic
form in which the
sequence
of
words
reads
the same in either direction.
●
A
sequence
of
items
that
follows
the same
pattern
both
forwards
and backwards.
●
In 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
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Origin
palindrome
English
παλίνδρομος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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