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Word: palindrome (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
  • 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.
  • 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

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