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return
The act of bringing or sending something back to a previous place, condition, or owner:
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  1. The act of bringing or sending something back to a previous place, condition, or owner:
  2. An income tax return.
  3. A recurrence, as of a periodic occasion or event:
trade
The people working in or associated with a business or industry:
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  1. The people working in or associated with a business or industry:
  2. A branch or kind of business:
  3. The trade winds
quid pro quo
Something equivalent; substitute
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  1. Something equivalent; substitute
  2. One thing in return for another
  3. Something that is given in return for something else or accepted as a reciprocal part of an exchange.
counteraction
An act of retaliation; a counterattack
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  1. An act of retaliation; a counterattack
  2. Any action in opposition to a previous action.
counterattack
An attack made in opposition to, or in reprisal for, another attack
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  1. An attack made in opposition to, or in reprisal for, another attack
  2. A return attack.
counterblow
A blow given in return
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  1. A blow given in return
  2. A blow delivered in return.
reprisal
The act or practice of forcibly seizing an enemy's goods or citizens in retaliation for a loss or injury inflicted.
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  1. The act or practice of forcibly seizing an enemy's goods or citizens in retaliation for a loss or injury inflicted.
  2. The act or practice of using force, short of war, against another nation to obtain redress of grievances
  3. Injury done, or the doing of injury, in return for injury received; retaliation or an act of retaliation, specif. in war, as the killing of prisoners
requital
Something given or done in return; repayment, reward, retaliation, or compensation
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  1. Something given or done in return; repayment, reward, retaliation, or compensation
  2. Return, as for an injury or friendly act.
  3. Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
retaliation
Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
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  1. Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
retribution
(Archaic) Suitable repayment for one's actions; requital
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  1. (Archaic) Suitable repayment for one's actions; requital
  2. (Theology) Punishment or reward distributed in a future life based on performance in this one.
  3. Punishment administered in return for a wrong committed.
revenge
A chance to retaliate or get satisfaction, as by a return match after a defeat
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  1. A chance to retaliate or get satisfaction, as by a return match after a defeat
  2. The act of revenging; vengeance
  3. A desire for revenge; spite or vindictiveness:
tit for tat
This for that
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  1. This for that
  2. Repayment in kind, as for an injury; retaliation.
vengeance
Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
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  1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
  2. Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
  3. The return of an injury for an injury, in punishment or retribution; avenging of an injury or offense; revenge
Find another word for reciprocation. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for reciprocation, like: return, trade, mutual exchange, quid pro quo, exchange, counteraction, counterattack, counterblow, reprisal, requital and retaliation.

Sentence Examples

  • In the particular case where the motion is of the kind known as simple harmonic the disturbing force on the frame due to the reciprocation of the weight is equal to the component of the centrifugal force in the line of stroke due to a weight equal to the reciprocated weight supposed concentrated at the crank pin.

  • He bases all moral phenomena on five facts: - (i) Man is susceptible to pleasure (and pain); (2) he likes (or dislikes) their causes; (3) he desires to reciprocate pleasure and pain received; (4) he expects such reciprocation from others; (5) he feels more or less sympathy with the same feelings in his fellows (Letters, 3rd series).

  • In practice reciprocation is usually effected through a connecting rod, as in the case of steam engines.

  • Although this method balances the pistons in the horizontal plane, and thus allows the pull of the engine on the train to be exerted without the variation due to the reciprocation of the pistons, yet the force balanced horizontally is introduced vertically and appears as a variation of pressure on the rail.

  • A focus or directrix is equal to two conditions; hence such problems as: given a focus and three points; a focus, two points and one tangent; and a focus, one point and two tangents are soluble (very conveniently by employing the principle of reciprocation).

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