reciprocal.
Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
Meaning & usage
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
Mutually interchangeable.
Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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.
A construction expressing mutual action.
Where this word comes from
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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