Meaning of PALINDROME
| Pronunciation: | | 'palin`drowm
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| | Definition: | | [n] a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward |
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| | Definition: | | Palindrome
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pal"in*drome\, n. [Gr. ? running back again; ? again
+ ? to run: cf. F. palindrome.]
A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read
backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, &
evil I did dwel.
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| | Definition: | | - A word or sentence that reads the same backwards as it does forward, such as "radar"
- A nucleic acid sequence whose 5'-to-3' sequence is identical on each DNA strand. The sequence is the same when one strand is read left to right and the other strand is read right to left. Recognition sites of many restriction enzymes are palindromic.
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| | Definition: | | See Palindromic sequence |
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| | Related Terms: | | abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, anastrophe, calembour, chiasmus, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, hypallage, hyperbaton, hysteron proteron, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, metastasis, metathesis, missaying, parenthesis, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerism, synchysis, tmesis, wordplay |
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