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- noun Plural form of
reciprocal .
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Examples
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The first is Brun's constant, the number towards which the sum of the reciprocals of twin primes converge.
Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me... 2011
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There are two reciprocals in English: each other or one another.
None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009
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I did kind of have a click experience about reciprocals, so that was nice.
Book Report #30: Vernon Geberth: Practical Homicide Investigation xiphias 2007
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Watching the lives of our respirating reciprocals, we learn patience and a pride is instilled that otherwise is impossible to teach.
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You can get round non signing in routine though there are now reciprocals I think by clicking the name/url radio button and using your name and url there.
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Working with measured interior triangles, the corners _seem_ to be reciprocals.
Solution to all the world's political problems jhetley 2006
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One cannot ask the same questions in the case of reciprocating terms, since when subject and predicate are convertible there is neither primary nor ultimate subject, seeing that all the reciprocals qua subjects stand in the same relation to one another, whether we say that the subject has an infinity of attributes or that both subjects and attributes-and we raised the question in both cases-are infinite in number.
Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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I head one of the few corporations in Florida that has no tariff war with the EEC and we're free reciprocals with the West African Economic Union.
Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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Twin sectors appeared in which the patterns of gene expression in the two side-by-side sectors were reciprocals of each other.
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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Steering by their reciprocals should take Jager safely back to sea.
The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972
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