Definition of reciprocal

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Reciprocal (n.) 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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Citizen :: Citizen (n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it..
Synallaxine :: Synallagmatic (a.) Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract..
Transmutual :: Transmutual (a.) Reciprocal; commutual.
Vergency :: Vergency (n.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays..
Correlative :: Correlative (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing..
Reciprocity :: Reciprocity (n.) Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation..
Commutual :: Commutual (a.) Mutual; reciprocal; united.
Agreement :: Agreement (n.) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises..
Correlative :: Correlative (a.) Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
Permute :: Permute (v. t.) To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.
Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal..
Sport :: Sport (v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
Alternative :: Alternative (a.) Alternate; reciprocal.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats..
Reciprocous :: Reciprocous (a.) Reciprocal.
Amongst :: Amongst (prep.) Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action..
Reciprok :: Reciprok (a.) Reciprocal.
Interrelated :: Interrelated (a.) Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain..
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