palindromic

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An elegant bilingual pun (ici is "here" in French), Ici is short and palindromic, evocative and playful.

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  1. Pertaining to or of the nature of a palindrome; that forms or constitutes a palindrome; that reads the same either forward or backward: as, palindromic verses.

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  • The near-palindromic hero, Rev Oliver, is captain of Deep Space Probe A18-17 in the year 2607, with a crew of three (handsome) men and one (beautiful) woman. —  FSF,March2008
  • Among the mechanisms discussed are: molecular recognition features, fly-casting, ease of encounter complex formation, structural isolation of partners, modulation of interactions between bound partners, masking of intramolecular interaction sites, maximized interaction surface per residue, toleration of high evolutionary rates, binding site overlap, allosteric modification, palindromic binding, reduced constraints for alternative splicing, efficient regulation via posttranslational modification, efficient regulation via rapid degradation, protection of normally solvent-exposed sites, enhancing the plasticity of interaction and molecular crowding. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Chromosome evolution with naked eye: palindromic context of the life origin. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The two DNA double helices investigated are formed, respectively, by the palindromic base sequences 5prime-dCCAACGTTGG-3prime and 5prime-dCGCAGATCTGCG-3prime. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • To overcome this problem, we evaluated the use of PCR for discrimination of the subspecies using various forms of long arbitrary primers or primers specific for repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences (REP) or enterobacterial repetitive intragenic consensus (ERIC) sequences. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. from Greek παλινδρομικός, recurring (of the tide), from παλίνδρομος, running back: see palindrome.
 

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