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reciprocality

Variant of reciprocal

adjective

  1. done, felt, given, etc. in return: hoping for a reciprocal favor
  2. present or existing on both sides; each to the other; mutual: to feel a reciprocal affection
  3. corresponding but reversed or inverted
  4. equivalent or interchangeable; corresponding or complementary
  5. Gram. expressing mutual action or relation: “each other” is traditionally called a reciprocal pronoun
  6. Math. of the reciprocals of quantities, or their relations

noun

  1. anything that has a reciprocal action on or relation to another; complement, counterpart, equivalent, etc.
  2. Math. the quantity resulting from the division of 1 by the given quantity; quantity which multiplied by the given quantity equals 1 (Ex.: the reciprocal of 7 is , of is 7)

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