anagram
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1. anagram - Noun
2. anagram - Verb
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Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
To anagrammatize.
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As another example, an anagram of a word, all of whose letters are different, is a permutation of its letters.
In 1981, on Gardner's retirement from Scientific American, the column was replaced by Douglas Hofstadter 's " Metamagical Themas ", a name that is an anagram of "Mathematical Games".
Any word or phrase that exactly reproduces the letters in another order is an anagram.
In 2015, he released the track "moDernisT" (an anagram of "Tom's Diner"), composed exclusively from the sounds deleted during MP3 compression of the song "Tom's Diner", the track originally used in the formulation of the MP3 standard.
Anagram solvers are often banned from online anagram games.
Computer programs, known as "anagram servers", "anagram solvers" or "anagrammers", offer a much faster route to creating anagrams, and a large number of these programs are available on the Internet.