Associations to the word «Palindrome»

Wiktionary

PALINDROME, 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.
PALINDROME, noun. A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
PALINDROME, 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

Dictionary definition

PALINDROME, noun. A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan