palindrome

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Synonyms: palindromes, palindromic, palindromia

Antonyms: palindromes, palindromic, palindromia

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Noun

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 [[diacritic]]s.
2. {{lb|en|by extension}} A [[poetic]] form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
3. {{lb|en|by extension}} A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
4. {{lb|en|genetics}} A stretch of [[DNA]] in which the [[sequence]] of [[nucleotide]]s on one [[strand]] are in the [[reverse]] [[order]] to that of the [[complementary]] strand

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