3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reciprocate \Re*cip"ro*cate\, v. t.
To give and return mutually; to make return for to give in
return; to unterchange; to alternate; as to reciprocate
favors. --Cowper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reciprocate \Re*cip"ro*cate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Reciprocated}; p. pr & vb n. {Reciprocating}.] [L.
reciprocatus p. p. of reciprocare. See {Reciprocal}.]
To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in
vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws
and blows reciprocating air. --Dryden.
{Reciprocating engine}, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in
which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction
from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels
continuously in one direction in a circular path.
{Reciprocating motion} (Mech.), motion alternately backward
and forward, or up and down as of a piston rod.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reciprocate
v : act feel or give in return; "We always invite the
neighbors and they never reciprocate!"
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