Meaning of RECIPROCAL in English

Use in sentences of RECIPROCAL

Meaning of RECIPROCAL in English

• Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
• Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.
• Mutually interchangeable.
• Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.
• Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.
• That which is reciprocal to another thing.
• The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus, / is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.

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