palindrome
/ˈpælɪndrəʊm//ˈpælɪndroʊm/
构词拆解
- palin-
- forms terms, of Greek origin, related to repetition or recurrence
- -drome
- (literary) Forms placenames related to racetracks (now especially large covered racetracks) or similar structures.
词源链
- 英语English
palindrome
词源说明
释义
名词noun
- 1A 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.
- 2by extensionA poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
- 3by extensionA sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
- 4(genetics