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reciprocally

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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 .

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

re·cipro·cali·ty (-kl-t), re·cipro·cal·ness (-kl-ns) n.
re·cipro·cal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.reciprocally - (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation; "gave up our seats on the plane and in return received several hundred dollars and seats on the next plane out"; "we get many benefits in return for our taxes"
2.reciprocally - in a mutual or shared manner; "the agreement was mutually satisfactory"; "the goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive"
3.reciprocally - in an inverse or contrary manner; "inversely related"; "wavelength and frequency are, of course, related reciprocally"- F.A.Geldard
Translations
reciprocally [rɪˈsɪprəkəlɪ] ADVrecíprocamente, mutuamente
reciprocally
adv admire, helpgegenseitig; trade, corresponduntereinander, miteinander; (Gram) → reziprok
reciprocally [rɪˈsɪprəklɪ] advreciprocamente
reciprocally [rɪˈsɪprəklɪ] advreciprocamente


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If we express ourselves thus accurately, at any rate the terms are reciprocally connected, for the 'ruddered' thing is 'ruddered' in virtue of its rudder.
Now in the present case Erskine contended that the examples of the whale and the lady were reciprocally illustrative of each other.
By a reciprocal cross between two species, I mean the case, for instance, of a stallion-horse being first crossed with a female-ass, and then a male-ass with a mare: these two species may then be said to have been reciprocally crossed.
 
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