Palindrome

Quick meaning: Palindrome is a noun meaning (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
2. (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
3. 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.

Example Sentences

The only thing exciting about 2002 is that it's a palindrome.

The color sequence in the palindrome skein is the same no metter whether you start from the left or right.

The shops opposite were a High Street palindrome — Korean gorocery, courier service, letting abgents, courier service, Korean grocery — and buses passed with noisy frequency.

A conjunct palindrome from notes 5 to 11, D D E F E D D, abuts the only melodically disjunct group E G D (notes 12–14), and at the same time contributes to a melodic sequence with the opening four notes.

Word Forms

• palindromes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ere, bp, semordnilap, ambigram, homophone, antilipo.

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