reciprocal

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈsɪpɹək(ə)l/
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/ɹɪˈsɪpɹək(ə)l/ · /resipro(ː)kəl/

Definition of reciprocal

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (not-comparable)Mutually interchangeable.
    “These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.”
  3. (not-comparable)Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
  4. (not-comparable)Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
  5. (not-comparable)Done, given, felt, or owed in return.
    “a reciprocal invitation to lunch”

noun

  1. 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.”
  2. 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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