Friday: General Knowledge
What is the term for a word that is the same forward and backward?
Hint: Examples of this would be Reviver, Level, or Madam.
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward.
This unique linguistic phenomenon applies to words like "racecar" and "level," as well as phrases like "madam, in Eden, I’m Adam" (ignoring punctuation and spaces).
Palindromes also appear in numbers, such as 1221 or 3443. They are widely studied in linguistics and mathematics, with applications in coding, DNA sequencing, and even literature. The term comes from the Greek words palin, meaning "again," and dromos, meaning "way" or "direction," emphasizing the concept of returning to the same point.
