Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪˈsɪpɹək(ə)l/
reciprocal (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
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.
- Mutually interchangeable.
- These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
- (grammar) expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive
- (math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
- Done, given, felt, or owed in return
- a reciprocal invitation to lunch
- mutual, two-way
- contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross
- (grammar) reflexive
- See also Thesaurus:contrary
- French: réciproque
- German: gegenseitig, reziprok
- Portuguese: recíproco
- Russian: взаи́мный
- Spanish: mutuo, recíproco
- German: entgegengesetzt, umgekehrt
- Russian: обра́тный
- Spanish: al revés
reciprocal (plural reciprocals)
- (arithmetic) 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.
- (grammar) A construction expressing mutual action.
- 2008, Ekkehard König, Volker Gast, Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations
- 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; […]
- 2008, Ekkehard König, Volker Gast, Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations
- (in arithmetic) multiplicative inverse
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