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palindrome, n. and a.|ˈpælɪndrəʊm|
[ad. Gr. παλίνδροµ-ος running back again: so in mod.F. (Littré).]
A. n.
1. A word, verse, or sentence that reads the same when the letters composing it are taken in the reverse order.
c1629B. Jonson Underwoods, Execr. upon Vulcan (1640) B j b, Had I..weav'd fifty tomes Of Logogriphes, or curious Pallindromes. 1706Phillips, Palindrome..as Lewd did I live, and evil I did dwel. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 170 The Palindromes, or Canorine, or recurrent verses, as they were called.
2. transf.
a. Mus. A piece of music of which the second half is the first half in retrograde motion.
1947E. Blom Everyman's Dict. Mus. 430/1 Palindrome, a word or poem reading the same backwards as forwards. In m[usic] a piece constructed in the same way, more or less loosely, as e.g. the prelude and postlude in Hindemith's Ludus tonalis. 1961Listener 21 Sept. 445/3 The palindrome is another symmetrical form that she has used several times, most notably and extendedly in the recent Symphonies where the strict symmetry of the reversed ‘reprise’ is relieved only by changes of scoring, [etc.]. 1963Ibid. 28 Mar. 570/3 Huber..is obsessed with musical palindromes. 1979Gramophone Aug. 327/2 Hers is a gorgeous performance, and its orchestral match may be summarized by the moment when Berg moves into a palindrome.
b. Biol. A palindromic sequence of nucleotides.
1974Wilson & Thomas in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. LXXXIV. 115 We call these regions in double-chain DNA palindromes, because, given the antiparallel arrangement of the polynucleotide chains, these sequences read the same both backwards and forwards. 1977Nature 3 Nov. 10/2 If these inverted repeats are adjacent (forming a palindrome) renaturation produces a double-stranded hairpin.
B. adj. That reads the same backwards as forwards.
1638Peacham Truth of our Times 123, I caused this to be written over the porch of their free-schoole doore, Subi dura a rudibus: It is Palindrome. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 171 In English but one Palindrome line is known.
Hence ˈpalindromist, a writer or inventor of palindromes.
a1876M. Collins Th. in Garden (1880) I. 226 A dear friend of mine, poet and palindromist and archæologist. |