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Definition of Palindrome

1. Noun. A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward.

Definition of Palindrome

1. n. 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.

Definition of Palindrome

1. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction. ¹

3. Noun. (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 ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Palindrome

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Palindrome

1. 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. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palindrome

Literary usage of Palindrome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Some have refined upon the palindrome, and composed verses each word of which is the same read backwards as forwards,—for instance, that of Camden— Odo ..."

2. Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill: (a Book of Moods). by Eugene Fitch Ware (1895)
"THE palindrome. Sat a gray and thoughtful soldier By his summer Kansas home; Came and spoke his freckled nephew, " Uncle, what's a palindrome ? ..."

3. A Whimsey Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1906)
"He who in Nature's bitters findeth sweet food every day, Eureka! till I pull up ill I take rue, well might say." H. Campkin. palindrome LINES SALTA ..."

4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"A-ka-sa-ka, the name of one of the districts of Tokyo, is a palindrome only when ... So the poem is a better palindrome in Japanese kana than when it is ..."

5. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1881)
"palindrome (Gr. palin, backwards, and dromos, a running), the name given to a kind of verse very common in Latin, the peculiarity of which is that it may be ..."

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