Reciprocal Synonyms and Antonyms

rĭ-sĭprə-kəl
(mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. multiplicative-inverse
Hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reciprocal cross

Words Related to Reciprocal

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Reciprocal Sentence Examples

  • This reciprocal silence is probably significant.

  • In the verbs there are causative, intensive or frequentative, and reciprocal forms.

  • The two sovereigns made a reciprocal arrangement as to their rights and pretensions to the crown of Brittany, but in the event of Charles predeceasing her, Anne undertook to marry the heir to the throne.

  • It may be remarked that in Poncelet's memoir on reciprocal polars, above referred to, we have the theorem that the number of tangents from a point to a curve of the order m, or say the class of the curve, is in general and at most = m(m - 1), and that he mentions that this number is subject to reduction when the curve has double points or cusps.

  • Two screws are reciprocal when a wrench about one does no work on a body which twists about the other.

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