Reciprocal
[rɪ'sɪprək(ə)l] or [rɪ'sɪprəkl]
Definition
(noun.) something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else; 'risk is the reciprocal of safety'.
(adj.) of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function; 'the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a' .
(adj.) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; 'reciprocal aid'; 'reciprocal trade'; 'mutual respect'; 'reciprocal privileges at other clubs' .
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Definition
(a.) Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
(a.) Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.
(a.) Mutually interchangeable.
(a.) Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.
(a.) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.
(n.) That which is reciprocal to another thing.
(n.) The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus, / is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Mutual, correlative.[2]. Interchangeable.
Typist: Maxine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Alternate, interchanged, mutual, Interchangeable, reflexive
ANT:One-sided, unreciprocated, unreturned
Checker: Walter
Definition
adj. acting in return: mutual: alternating: interchangeable: giving and receiving.—n. that which is reciprocal: (math.) the quotient resulting from the division of unity by any given quantity.—n. Reciprocal′ity the state or quality of being reciprocal: mutual return.—adv. Recip′rocally mutually: interchangeably: inversely.—ns. Recip′rocalness; Recip′rocant (math.) a contravariant expressing a certain condition of tangency: a differential invariant.—adj. Recip′rocantive relating to a reciprocant.—v.t. Recip′rocāte to give and receive mutually: to requite: to interchange: to alternate.—v.i. to move backward and forward: (coll.) to make a return or response.—ns. Recip′rocating-en′gine an engine in which the piston moves forward and backward in a straight line; Reciprocā′tion interchange of acts: alternation.—adj. Recip′rocātive acting reciprocally.—n. Reciproc′ity mutual obligations: action and reaction: equality of commercial privileges.—adjs. Rec′iprock Rec′iproque (Bacon) reciprocal; Recip′rocous (rare) turning back: reciprocal.—Reciprocal proportion is when of four terms taken in order the first has to the second the same ratio which the fourth has to the third; Reciprocal ratio the ratio of the reciprocals of two quantities; Reciprocal terms those that have the same signification and consequently are convertible; Reciprocating motion by this the power is transmitted from one part of a machine to another.
Checker: Wade
Examples
- Where affection is reciprocal and sincere, and minds are harmonious, marriage _must_ be happy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thus there is a reciprocal influence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If a person be my brother I am his likewise: but though the relations be reciprocal they have very different effects on the imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A passion however, if it be wholly pure, entire, and reciprocal, brings with it its own solace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Why should there often be so great a difference in the result of a reciprocal cross between the same two species? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In fact, Boyle had sustained the hypothesis that supposes the pressures and expansions to be in reciprocal proportions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Hybrid plants produced from a reciprocal cross generally resemble each other closely, and so it is with mongrel plants from a reciprocal cross. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And meanwhile the stream of events flowed on, with a reciprocal indifference to philosophy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had two selves within him apparently, and they must learn to accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The reciprocal duties of master and apprentice make a considerable article in every modern code. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is often the widest possible difference in the facility of making reciprocal crosses. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The hybrids, moreover, produced from reciprocal crosses often differ in fertility. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is generally different, and sometimes widely different in reciprocal crosses between the same two species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Gartner, moreover, found that this difference of facility in making reciprocal crosses is extremely common in a lesser degree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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