reciprocal

Meanings

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.

Related

Similar words

• mutual, two-way
• contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross
• reflexive
• multiplicative inverse

Origin

• Latin reciprocus, possibly from a phrase such as reque proque, from re-, prō and -que.