Reciprocal Definition

rĭ-sĭprə-kəl
adjective
Done, felt, given, etc. in return.
Hoping for a reciprocal favor.
Webster's New World
Present or existing on both sides; each to the other; mutual.
To feel a reciprocal affection.
Webster's New World
Corresponding but reversed or inverted.
Webster's New World
Equivalent or interchangeable; corresponding or complementary.
Webster's New World
Expressing mutual action or relation.
“each other” is traditionally called a reciprocal pronoun.
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noun
Something that is reciprocal to something else.
American Heritage
Anything that has a reciprocal action on or relation to another; complement, counterpart, equivalent, etc.
Webster's New World
The quantity resulting from the division of 1 by the given quantity; quantity which multiplied by the given quantity equals 1 (Ex.: the reciprocal of 7 is17, of17 is 7)
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Other Word Forms of Reciprocal

Noun

Singular:
reciprocal
Plural:
reciprocals

Origin of Reciprocal

  • From Latin reciprocus alternating per1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin reciprocus.

    From Wiktionary

Reciprocal Sentence Examples

  • This reciprocal silence is probably significant.

  • In the verbs there are causative, intensive or frequentative, and reciprocal forms.

  • The two sovereigns made a reciprocal arrangement as to their rights and pretensions to the crown of Brittany, but in the event of Charles predeceasing her, Anne undertook to marry the heir to the throne.

  • It may be remarked that in Poncelet's memoir on reciprocal polars, above referred to, we have the theorem that the number of tangents from a point to a curve of the order m, or say the class of the curve, is in general and at most = m(m - 1), and that he mentions that this number is subject to reduction when the curve has double points or cusps.

  • Two screws are reciprocal when a wrench about one does no work on a body which twists about the other.

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Words Starting With

RREREC

Words Ending With

LALCAL

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Words Starting With R and Ending With L

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With R10 Letter Words Ending With L