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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

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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)

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