adjective.
Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
adjective.
Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual
adjective.
Mutually interchangeable.
adjective.
Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.
adjective.
Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.
adjective.
one which remains unchanged in form when the reciprocal of the unknown quantity is substituted for that quantity.
adjective.
two figures of the same kind (as triangles, parallelograms, prisms, etc.), so related that two sides of the one form the extremes of a proportion of which the means are the two corresponding sides of the other; in general, two figures so related that the first corresponds in some special way to the second, and the second corresponds in the same way to the first.
adjective.
a proportion such that, of four terms taken in order, the first has to the second the same ratio which the fourth has to the third, or the first has to the second the same ratio which the reciprocal of the third has to the reciprocal of the fourth. Thus, 2:5: :20:8 form a reciprocal proportion, because 2:5: :1/20:1/8.
adjective.
any two quantities which produce unity when multiplied together.
adjective.
the ratio between the reciprocals of two quantities; as, the reciprocal ratio of 4 to 9 is that of 1/4 to 1/9.
adjective.
those terms which have the same signification, and, consequently, are convertible, and may be used for each other.
noun.
That which is reciprocal to another thing.
noun.
The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus 1/4 is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a + b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.