reciprocation
See also: réciprocation
English
Etymology
reciprocate + -ion
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
reciprocation (countable and uncountable, plural reciprocations)
- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning
- 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:
Translations
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See also
- requital
- retaliation
References
- reciprocation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- reciprocation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “reciprocation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.