palindrome

From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪndɹəʊm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪndɹoʊm/

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palindrome (plural palindromes)

1. 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.

   “Rise to vote sir” is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome.

   Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes.

2. (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
3. (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

• (genetics): massive palindrome

• aibohphobia
• anagram
• semordnilap

• pramindole

From Ancient Greek πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + -drome "course", "road".

palindrome m (plural palindromes)

1. palindrome

• “palindrome” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

palindrome f

1. feminine plural of palindromo