About The Word Reciprocate
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Reciprocate
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What's The Definition Of Reciprocate?
[v] alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine reciprocates the propeller"
[v] act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!" Synonyms | Synonyms for Reciprocate: Related Terms | Find terms related to Reciprocate: See Also | act | move | move | return Reciprocate In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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. |
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