Palindrome
A palindrome is a word, sentence, or number that reads the same from left to right as from right to left.[1][2] Punctuation does not matter, but letters and digits do. All alphabetic languages have palindromes. The first palindrome was the Latin Sator Square, which reads:
You can read it horizontally, backwards, or even vertically.
Examples of Palindromes
Words
- Mum or Mom
- Dad
- Deed
- Level
- Radar
- Kayak
- Eye
- Madam
- Rotor
- Krape Park
- Civic
- Gag
- Nun
- Bob
- Bib
Sentences
- Was it a cat I saw?
- Do geese see God?
- Rats live on no evil star.
- Never odd or even.
- Madam, I'm Adam.
- Go Hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog
- Top spot
- Nurses run
Numbers
- 11
- 22
- 33
- 44
- 55
- 66
- 77
- 88
- 99
- 101
- 111
- 222
- 333
- 444
- 555
- 666
- 777
- 888
- 999
- 1111
- 212
- 151
- 090
- 434
- 58685
- 838
- 12021
- 36863
- 1888998881
- 2112
- 9889
- 3443
- 102201
- 1771
- 1661
- 1881[1]
- 1991
- 2002
Palindrome Media
4th-century Greek Byzantine palindrome: ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ (Wash Your Sins, Not Only Your Face) on a mosaic in the Monastery of Malevi in Greece.
Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin palindrome, on a font at St Martin, Ludgate
A cartoon using the palindrome "Madam, I'm Adam"
Ambigram of the palindrome "Dogma I am God"
Palindromic license plate number
Centre part of palindrome in Alban Berg's opera Lulu
Palindrome of DNA structureA: Palindrome, B: Loop, C: Stem
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Palindrome. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ↑ Palindrome. Definition at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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