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reciprocation

noun

Etymology

From reciprocate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from recīprocātus
  2. suffixed as reciprocation — “reciprocate + ion”

Definitions

  1. The act of reciprocating

    The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning.

    • the reciprocation of kindness

  2. Alternate recurrence or action

    Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides, or the back and forth motion in a piston engine.

    • Near-synonym: oscillation
    • ... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times.

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Derived

unreciprocation

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reciprocation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA