reciprocal
reciprocals
Reciprocal describes something that's the same on both sides. If you and your sister are in a big fight on a long car trip, you might resolve it through a reciprocal agreement that you'll stop poking her and she'll stop reading road signs out loud.
The word mutual is a near synonym in most uses: reciprocal/mutual friendship, describing, a relationship in which two people feel the same way about each other, or do or give similar things to each other. If you tell someone you like them and they say, "The feelings are reciprocal," that means they like you too. In math, a reciprocal is a number that when multiplied by a given number gives one as a product.
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concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return“reciprocal aid”“reciprocal trade”“reciprocal privileges at other clubs”
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synonyms:
mutual
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bilateral
affecting or undertaken by two parties
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trilateral
involving three parties
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correlative
expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation
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interactional, interactive
capable of acting on or influencing each other
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reciprocative, reciprocatory
moving alternately backward and forward
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reciprocative, reciprocatory
given or done or owed to each other
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Antonyms:
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nonreciprocal
not reciprocal
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nonreciprocating
not moving alternately forward and backward
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unanswered, unreciprocated, unrequited
not returned in kind
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bilateral
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something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else“risk is the reciprocal of safety”
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type of:
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reciprocality, reciprocity
a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
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reciprocality, reciprocity
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(mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7
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synonyms:
multiplicative inverse
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of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function“the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a”
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Synonyms:
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inverse
opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
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inverse
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hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype
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synonyms:
reciprocal cross
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type of:
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cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
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cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding
Vocabulary lists containing reciprocal
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