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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reciprocation \Re*cip`ro*ca"tion\, n. [L. reciprocatio: cf F.
reciprocation.]
1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts a mutual
giving and returning; as the reciprocation of kindness.
2. Alternate recurrence or action as the reciprocation of
the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. --Sir T. Browne.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reciprocation
n 1: the act of reciprocating
2: alternating back-and-forth movement
3: mutual interaction; the activity of interchanging or
reciprocating [syn: {interchange}, {give-and-take}]
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