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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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Lack of extrusion of the palindrome may explain why it was not deleted from the chromosomal locus during growth of the recombinants.
In fact, as aficionados of the English language will know, a palindrome is a word whose letters spell the same forwards as backwards.
Every time I tell someone my name is Hannah, they tell me that it's a palindrome, as though I didn't already know.
Numerologists will remember 2002 as a palindrome, the last year until 2112 that can be written the same way backward or forward.
The mood changes are subtle, yet significant, between songs and the album as a whole forms a palindrome, tonally, like its title.
In this form the solution will depend on whether the number of letters in the palindrome be odd or even.

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