English Explanatory Dictionary

ambigram

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A calligraphic design that may be read as the same word or phrase (or sometimes different words or phrases) when oriented in two different ways, usually when reflected along a vertical or horizontal axis or when rotated through 180 degrees.

Word forms

ambigram ambigrams

Etymology

From ambi- + -gram. Coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1983-1984.

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