Reciprocal is an English word with synonyms like inverse or opposite. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Reciprocal meaning
- Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
- Mutually interchangeable.
- Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
Synonyms of Reciprocal
Using Reciprocal
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way. | Mutually interchangeable. | Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
- Useful related words include: inverse, opposite, multiplicative inverse, reciprocity.
- In the example corpus, reciprocal often appears in combinations such as: the reciprocal, and reciprocal, reciprocal of.
Context around Reciprocal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 4 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Reciprocal
- In this selection, "reciprocal" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, distinguishing, interaction, poles, altruism, exchange and actions stand out and add context to how "reciprocal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a reciprocal exchange structure and balanced and reciprocal partnership with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "reciprocal" sits close to words such as adhering, adrenaline and advert, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with reciprocal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In 1996, Israel and Oman signed an agreement to open reciprocal trade representative offices. (14 words)
France is seeking to "build a balanced and reciprocal partnership" with the country, he said. (15 words)
Georgelin dismissed the incident, insisting there had been no quarrel just “respect and reciprocal esteem”. (15 words)
But it might have survived had the two sides been willing to make it clear from the outset what final outcome the interim period was supposed to produce, and then taken mutually reciprocal actions on the ground to prepare for it. (41 words)
Also, the multiplicative inverse is the reciprocal of any number (except 0; 0 is the only number without a multiplicative inverse), that is, multiplying the reciprocal of any number by the number itself yields the multiplicative identity. (37 words)
Lawyers for the Home Office opposed the appeal, telling the court the Rwandan government has “indicated a clear willingness to co-operate with monitoring mechanisms” and that there are “reciprocal obligations with strong incentives for compliance”. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Also, the multiplicative inverse is the reciprocal of any number (except 0; 0 is the only number without a multiplicative inverse), that is, multiplying the reciprocal of any number by the number itself yields the multiplicative identity.
Explicitly, ignoring significand, taking the reciprocal is just taking the additive inverse of the (unbiased) exponent, since the exponent of the reciprocal is the negative of the original exponent.
The first two conditions are necessary for altruism as such, while the third is distinguishing reciprocal altruism from simple mutualism and the fourth makes the interaction reciprocal.
The vertices of the dual are the poles reciprocal to the face planes of the original, and the faces of the dual lie in the polars reciprocal to the vertices of the original.
A Reciprocal Exchange structure has been utilized by successful insurance businesses such as Farmers InsuranceAs an example, Zurich owns the day-to-day operator behind farmers and creates substantial and consistent value from that relationship.
But it might have survived had the two sides been willing to make it clear from the outset what final outcome the interim period was supposed to produce, and then taken mutually reciprocal actions on the ground to prepare for it.
Canada has already established comparable reciprocal agreements with several nations, including Australia, France, Norway, Ukraine, Georgia, and the United Kingdom.
Flamingos are cliquey birds who form friendships based on personality attributes, which mirror your desire for reciprocal counterparts.
For the potential launch of the reciprocal and the momentum across the business, we are very excited about what the next several years will produce.
France is seeking to "build a balanced and reciprocal partnership" with the country, he said.
Georgelin dismissed the incident, insisting there had been no quarrel just “respect and reciprocal esteem”.
He conveyed the greetings of the Tajik president to the Iranian president and stressed the official invitation of President Raeisi to pay a reciprocal trip to Dushanbe.
In 1996, Israel and Oman signed an agreement to open reciprocal trade representative offices.
It’s terrifying and pathetic, yet somehow it gets past all the vested gatekeepers that should know better and be blowing their whistles for that era of reciprocal post-filling to stop.
Jamaica and Canada have signed a Reciprocal Recognition Agreement to enable seafarers from both countries to work on ships sailing under the Jamaican or Canadian flags.
Lawyers for the Home Office opposed the appeal, telling the court the Rwandan government has “indicated a clear willingness to co-operate with monitoring mechanisms” and that there are “reciprocal obligations with strong incentives for compliance”.
Medvedev said Moscow would respond with a "reciprocal ban on imports from our country," including the termination of the Black Sea Grain deal that enables vital grain exports from Ukraine.
Reciprocal deposits enable banks to place deposits with another bank and receive the same value back through technology firms, reshuffling approximately $1 trillion through their platforms.
The process of curation, he says, is inherently political and reciprocal as the process involves collaborators from across the globe.
The secret sauce is a combination of data scraped from the web, including underlying information, images and other aspects, so it can feed the model, plus reciprocal data from the brands it works with.
Common combinations with reciprocal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the reciprocal 35×
- and reciprocal 16×
- reciprocal of 13×
- of reciprocal 12×
- reciprocal altruism 9×
- on reciprocal 9×
- reciprocal trade 8×
- for reciprocal 7×
- reciprocal is 6×
- in reciprocal 6×