reciprocal
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Definition of reciprocal
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
“reciprocal love”
“reciprocal duties”
“Let our reciprocall vowes be remembred.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
“reciprocal love”
“reciprocal duties”
“Let our reciprocall vowes be remembred.”
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(not-comparable)Mutually interchangeable.
“These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.”
- (not-comparable)Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
- (not-comparable)Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
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(not-comparable)Done, given, felt, or owed in return.
“a reciprocal invitation to lunch”
noun
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The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
“0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.”
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A construction expressing mutual action.
“Depending on where reciprocalization applies (syntax vs. lexicon), the relevant reciprocal verbs are claimed to exhibit specific properties, in particular: (i) syntactic reciprocals are fully productive whereas lexical reciprocals have only limited productivity; […]”
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Etymology
From Latin reciprocus, possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth, to and fro”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”).
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