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What is a palindrome?

What is a palindrome? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A 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.
  2. (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
  3. (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
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A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sentence which reads the same backwards and forwards.
Numerologists will remember 2002 as a palindrome, the last year until 2112 that can be written the same way backward or forward.
In this form the solution will depend on whether the number of letters in the palindrome be odd or even.
Every time I tell someone my name is Hannah, they tell me that it's a palindrome, as though I didn't already know.
I was too pleased with my own hard-won epiphany that the film's title is a palindrome to even notice that the credits had started rolling.
The structure of the palindrome was confirmed by extensive restriction mapping and sequencing.

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