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reciprocal

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Adjective

  1. Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
  2. Mutually interchangeable.
  3. Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
  4. Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
  5. Done, given, felt, or owed in return.

Noun

  1. The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
  2. A construction expressing mutual action.

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