reciprocation
See also: réciprocation
English
editEtymology
editFrom reciprocate + -ion.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
editreciprocation (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.
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editReferences
edit- “reciprocation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “reciprocation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “reciprocation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.