reciprocation

See also: réciprocation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English reciprocate

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English reciprocation

From reciprocate + -ion.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

reciprocation (countable and uncountable, plural reciprocations)

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

   Synonym: reciprocity

   the reciprocation of kindness

2. 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

   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:

     ... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times.

Derived terms

• unreciprocation

Related terms

• reciprocating engine

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: размяна (bg) f (razmjana)
• French: réciprocité (fr) f
• German: Vergeltung (de) f, Erwiderung (de) f
• Hungarian: viszonzás (hu)
• Italian: reciprocazione (it) f
• Macedonian: возврат m (vozvrat)
• Manx: maylartey m

See also

• requital
• retaliation

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “reciprocation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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.