reciprocation

See also: réciprocation

English

Etymology

From reciprocate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

reciprocation (countable and uncountable, plural reciprocations)

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

   the reciprocation of kindness

2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; 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.

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 E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “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.