palindrome

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STANLEY YELNATS. his name is a palindrome, his dad is an inventor with little luck, all because of his no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great granfather.

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  1. noun A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. For example: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
  2. noun A segment of double-stranded DNA in which the nucleotide sequence of one strand reads in reverse order to that of the complementary strand.

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  • Knowing what a palindrome is, and knowing the suffix -ology, ygology was inevitable.
  • For example, what two-word palindrome means “beige bug”?
  • An aficionado of wordplay (as you'll soon see), Dr. Blumlein once provided a promotional quote for a novel in the form of a palindrome, about two dozen words long. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
  • STANLEY YELNATS. his name is a palindrome, his dad is an inventor with little luck, all because of his no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great granfather. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • A schematic mechanism leading to the formation of such a duplicated palindrome is proposed. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. From Greek palindromos, running back again, recurring : palin, again; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots + dromos, a running.

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  1. = Frenchpalindrome = Spanish palindromo = Portuguese Italian palindromo, from Greek παλίνδρομος, running back, from πάλιν, back, + δπαμεῖν, run.
 

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/ˈpælɪndroʊm/
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