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palindrome

[′pal·ən‚drōm]
(genetics)
A nucleic acid sequence that is self-complementary.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Palindrome

 

a sentence or verse that can be read, by letters or by words, backward or forward; both readings will make sense and usually will be identical. “Madam, I’m Adam” is an example of an English palindrome.

The artistic quality of a palindrome depends on the structure of a given language. In Russian and other European languages, palindromes usually sound artificial and unintelligible, whereas in Chinese, for instance, many highly artistic poems are palindromes. Examples of Russian palindromes can be found in V. V. Khlebnikov’s narrative poem Razin’s Boat and in works by V. Ia. Briusov, I. L. Sel’vinskii, and A. A. Voznesenskii.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Honchar were active palindromists, while Roman Sadlovskyi contributed some interesting visual pieces.
First, unlike most palindromists who typically compose their palindromic sentences two reversal or semi-reversal words at a time, Bergerson typically commenced with an initial pair of reversal phrases, for which purpose he assembled lists of such phrase pairs.
MARK SALTVEIT ('palindromistmag@gmail.com'> reports that he is working on a book about palindromists throughout history, specifically including Howard Bergerson, Dmitri Borgmann, J.A.
Katz realized that a renowned palindromist like Leona would never have written such an unintelligible palindrome unless it had some other additional constraint hidden within it.
I then decided to discard the traditional crossword ban on unchecked squares, but to keep the rule of grid symmetry, an especially pleasing goal for a palindromist.
I asked several of the palindromists who were in the geopalcontest that resulted in a lot of new geograhical palindromes.
So what isit we do, we palindromists? Is our art worthwhile, does it meananything?
These were entitled, respectively, "Palindromes: The Rotas Square," "Palindromes: The Rotas Prehistory" and "Palindromes: The Ascending Tradition." Historical rather than logological studies, they are of considerable interest to palindromists of an historical turn of mind both for their comprehensive discussion of the well-known sator word square and for their deeply-researched survey of examples of ancient and medieval palindromic writing, many of which I have never seen mentioned elsewhere in wordplay literature.
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