Reciprocality

re·cip·ro·cal  (r-spr-kl)

adj.

1. Concerning each of two or more persons or things.

2. Interchanged, given, or owed to each other: reciprocal agreements to abolish customs duties; a reciprocal invitation to lunch.

3. Performed, experienced, or felt by both sides: reciprocal respect.

4. Interchangeable; complementary: reciprocal electric outlets.

5. Grammar Expressing mutual action or relationship. Used of some verbs and compound pronouns.

6. Mathematics Of or relating to the reciprocal of a quantity.

7. Physiology Of or relating to a neuromuscular phenomenon in which the excitation of one group of muscles is accompanied by the inhibition of another.

8. Genetics Of or designating a pair of crosses in which the male or female parent in one cross is of the same genotype or phenotype as the complementary female or male parent in the other cross.

n.

1. Something that is reciprocal to something else.

2. Mathematics A number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together their product is 1. For example, the reciprocal of 7 is ¹/₇ ; the reciprocal of ²/₃ is ³/₂ .

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[From Latin reciprocus, alternating; see per¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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re·cipro·cali·ty (-kl-t), re·cipro·cal·ness (-kl-ns) n.

re·cipro·cal·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Noun

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reciprocality - a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence reciprocity relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together complementarity - the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other; "the complementarity of the sexes" correlation, correlativity - a reciprocal relation between two or more things interdependence, interdependency, mutuality - a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) mutuality, mutualness - a reciprocality of sentiments; "the mutuality of their affection was obvious" reciprocal - something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else; "risk is the reciprocal of safety"