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Definition of Reciprocal
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Reciprocal
Recurring in vicissitude; alternate. Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties. Mutually interchangeable. Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action. Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below. That which is reciprocal to another thing. The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus, / is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator. Related Definitions:
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Reciprocal Quotations
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. Samuel Johnson Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. Lord Chesterfield There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. Margaret J. Wheatley The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. Talcott Parsons Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. Georg Simmel |
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Reciprocal Translations
reciprocal in Danish is gensidig reciprocal in Dutch is onderling, wederkerig, wederzijds reciprocal in Finnish is vastavuoroinen reciprocal in German is wechselseitig, reziprok, reziprok reciprocal in Italian is viceversa |
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