reciprocation
Noun
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Noun
reciprocation
- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning
- the reciprocation of kindness
- Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- ... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- French: réciprocité
- German: Vergeltung, Erwiderung
- Italian: reciprocazione
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