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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 It might be outdated or ideologically biased.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.

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References in periodicals archive
The glory of a pioneer and grand-master of modern Ukrainian palindrome should be given to Mykola Miroshnychenko (1947-2009), who made palindromes passion of his life.
Infinite words whose language contains infinitely many palindromes are being studied by many authors.
The other side of the artifact contains the palindrome written in Greek.
The reader enters at one of the ends of the palindrome, traditionally called the "wings," where Li-ttera can be heard in Greek as "the ptera," "the wings." The wings "teach the deed," i.e., the compositional process, which is identified by name as its mate, anagogia, a word that holds two mini palindromes, ana and gog.
Palindromes are words and phrases spelled the same way backwards and forwards.
There's more: the number 111,111 times 111,111 equals 12,345,654,321 - another palindrome. Better yet, the number 111,111,111 times 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321, which is not only a very big number but also a 17-digit palindrome.
The "palindrome effect" has been described in a number of earlier works; this is the presence of specific inversion points in the time series of histograms after which the same histograms occur in the reverse order [2, 5, 6].
The resulting sequence showed that about 25% of the male-specific euchromatin on the Y consists of these eight palindromes and contains most of the Y's functional genes (Figure 3).
Lychrel numbers: A Lychrel number is a natural number which cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its base 10 digits and adding the resulting numbers.
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