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English
Etymology
From reciprocate + -ion.
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Noun
reciprocation (countable and uncountable, plural reciprocations)
- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning
the reciprocation of kindness
- Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times.
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- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “reciprocation”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “reciprocation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “reciprocation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.