reciprocal
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
- Mutually interchangeable.
- Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
- Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
- Done, given, felt, or owed in return.
Noun
- The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
- A construction expressing mutual action.
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