palindrome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”). By surface analysis, palin- + -drome (compare also velodrome and syndrome).
Inflected forms:
form: palindromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The only thing exciting about 2002 is that it's a palindrome.
gloss: A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: A conjunct palindrome from notes 5 to 11, D D E F E D D, abuts the only melodically disjunct group E G D (notes 12–14), and at the same time contributes to a melodic sequence with the opening four notes.
The shops opposite were a High Street palindrome — Korean gorocery, courier service, letting abgents, courier service, Korean grocery — and buses passed with noisy frequency.
The color sequence in the palindrome skein is the same no metter whether you start from the left or right.
gloss: A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
pos: noun
Derived words: semi-palindrome
massive palindrome
heteropalindrome
palindromatic
palindromic
palindromist
palindromization
palindromize
pseudopalindrome
quasipalindrome
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: апалиндром
roman: apʼalindrom
lang: Afrikaans
word: palindroom
lang: Albanian
word: palindromi
lang: Arabic
word: قَلْب مُسْتَوٍ
roman: qalb mustawin
lang: Armenian
word: պալինդրոմ
roman: palindrom
lang: Armenian
word: դարձգիր
roman: darjgir
lang: Assamese
word: পেলিনড্ৰোম
roman: pelinodrüm
lang: Azerbaijani
word: palindrom
lang: Basque
word: palindromo
lang: Belarusian
word: паліндро́м
roman: palindróm
lang: Bengali
word: প্যালিনড্রোম
roman: pêlinḍrōm
lang: Central Bikol
word: palindromo
lang: Bulgarian
word: палиндром
roman: palindrom
lang: Catalan
word: palíndrom
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 回文
roman: wui⁴ man⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 回文
roman: huíwén
lang: Czech
word: palindrom
lang: Danish
word: palindrom
lang: Dutch
word: palindroom
lang: Esperanto
word: palindromo
lang: Faroese
word: palindrom
lang: Finnish
word: palindromi
lang: French
word: palindrome
lang: West-Frisian
word: palindroom
lang: Galician
word: palíndromo
lang: Georgian
word: პალინდრომი
roman: ṗalindromi
lang: German
word: Palindrom
lang: Greek
word: καρκινική γραφή
roman: karkinikí grafí
lang: Hebrew
word: פלינדרום
roman: pálindrom
lang: Hindi
word: चित्रकाव्य
roman: citrakāvya
lang: Hungarian
word: palindrom
lang: Icelandic
word: samhverfa
lang: Ido
word: palindromo
lang: Indonesian
word: palindrom
lang: Interlingua
word: palindromo
lang: Irish
word: palandróm
lang: Italian
word: palindromo
lang: Japanese
word: 回文
roman: kaibun
lang: Kannada
word: ಗತಪ್ರತ್ಯಾಗತ
roman: gatapratyāgata
lang: Korean
word: 회문
roman: hoemun
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: palîndrom
lang: Kyrgyz
word: палиндром
roman: palindrom
lang: Latin
word: palindromus
lang: Latvian
word: palindroms
lang: Limburgish
word: palindroom
lang: Lithuanian
word: palindromas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Palindrom
lang: Malayalam
word: അനുലോമവിലോമപദം
roman: anulōmavilōmapadaṁ
lang: Māori
word: kupu tuataurite
lang: Māori
word: kupu kōaro rite
lang: Māori
word: tau kōaro rite
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: palindrom
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: palindrom
lang: Occitan
word: palindròm
lang: Persian
word: پالیندروم
roman: pâlindrom
lang: Polish
word: palindrom
lang: Portuguese
word: palíndromo
lang: Portuguese
word: capicua
lang: Romanian
word: palindrom
lang: Russian
word: палиндро́м
roman: palindróm
lang: Sanskrit
word: अनुलोमप्रतिलोमपदम्
roman: anulomapratilomapadam
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: paileandrom
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: палѝндро̄м
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: palìndrōm
lang: Slovak
word: palindróm
lang: Slovene
word: palindrom
lang: Spanish
word: palíndromo
lang: Spanish
word: capicúa
lang: Swedish
word: palindrom
lang: Tagalog
word: salitambaligtarin
lang: Tagalog
word: baligtarinsalita
lang: Tajik
word: палиндром
roman: palindrom
lang: Tamil
word: மாலைமாற்று
roman: mālaimāṟṟu
lang: Telugu
word: పత్రికాపదకోశం
roman: patrikāpadakōśaṁ
lang: Telugu
word: అనులోమవిలోమ శ్లోకము
roman: anulōmavilōma ślōkamu
lang: Thai
word: พาลินโดรม
roman: paa lin-doh rom
lang: Turkish
word: palindrom
lang: Ukrainian
word: паліндром
roman: palindrom
lang: Võro
word: palindruum
lang: Welsh
word: palindrom
lang: Zazaki
word: palîndrom