palindrome
Plural: palindromes
Noun
- a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
- 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.
- A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”). By surface analysis, palin- + -drome (compare also velodrome and syndrome).
Scrabble Score: 15
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Words With Friends Score: 19
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