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Reciprocal

in grammar, reflexive.

Applied to verbs which have as an object a pronoun standing for the subject; as, "Bethink yourself." It is also applied RECIPROCATING ENGINE RECONNAISSANCE to pronouns of this class. As a noun, gress, only to have it rejected by Canthat which is reciprocal to another thing. ada. The Democrats, believing as they Specifically, in mathematics, the quotient resulting from the division of unity by the quantity; thus the reciprocal 1 1 of a is, of 2 is ½, of a + b is, etc. a+b a The product of a quantity, its reciprocal, is always equal to 1. The reciprocal of a vulgar fraction is the denominator divided by the numerator; thus the reciprocal of 1/2 is 2, of 2/3 is 3/2, etc.

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