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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky