Reciprocation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An alternating back-and-forth movement.
  • n. The act or fact of reciprocating; interchange.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
  • n. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning.
  • n. Alternate recurrence or action.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A going back and forth; alternation of movement.
  • n. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning: as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.
  • n. In logic, the relation of two propositions each the converse of the other.
  • n. The process of taking the reciprocal (of a curve, proposition, or quantity).
  • n. In geometry, the correlation of two reciprocal figures. See reciprocal, a., 4.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of making or doing something in return
  • n. alternating back-and-forth movement
  • n. mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    getting even    return    paying back    motility    movement   
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    upbraiding    pubmed    aesthetic    mutuality    interchange