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reciprocal
Adjective
  • Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
  • Mutually interchangeable.
  • expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive grammar
  • Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. mathematics
  • contrary or opposite
Noun
  • Of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction. arithmetic