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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To give or take mutually; interchange.
  2. v. To show, feel, or give in response or return.
  3. v. To move back and forth alternately.
  4. v. To give and take something mutually.
  5. v. To make a return for something given or done.
  6. v. To be complementary or equivalent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cause to move back and forth; give an alternating motion to.
  2. To give and return mutually; yield or perform each to each; interchange: as, to reciprocate favors.
  3. To give or do in response; yield a return of; requite correspondingly.
  4. To move backward and forward; have an alternating movement; act interchangeably; alternate.
  5. To act in return or response; do something equivalent or accordant: as, I did him many favors, but he did not reciprocate.
  6. In mathematics, to take the reciprocal of.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To mutually give and take something; to interchange.
  2. v. transitive To give something in response.
  3. v. intransitive To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
  4. v. intransitive To counter, retort or retaliate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
  2. v. To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. act, feel, or give mutually or in return
  2. v. alternate the direction of motion of

Etymologies

  1. From Latin reciprocātus, past participle of reciprocāre ("to move back and forth"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin reciprocāre, reciprocāt-, to move back and forth, from reciprocus, alternating; see reciprocal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. alternate
  1. interchange
  1. correspond
  1. correlate
  1. return

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  1. move

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  1. requite
  1. return
  1. reciprocate
  1. interchange
  1. ingratitude

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