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Webster 1913 Edition
Reciprocation
Re-cipˊro-ca′tion
(rē̍-sĭp′rō̍-kā′shŭn)
, Noun.
[L.
reciprocatio
: cf. F. réciprocation
.] 1.
The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning;
as, the
. reciprocation
of kindness2.
Alternate recurrence or action;
as, the
. reciprocation
of the sea in the flow and ebb of tidesSir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Reciprocation
RECIPROCA'TION
,Noun.
1.
Interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as the reciprocation of kindnesses.2.
Alternation; as the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.3.
Regular return or alternation of two symptoms or diseases.Definition 2024
reciprocation
reciprocation
English
Noun
reciprocation (plural reciprocations)
- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
- Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- ... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
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References
- reciprocation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- reciprocation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.