reciprocation
nounEtymology From reciprocate + -ion.
1
The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning.
- the reciprocation of kindness
2
Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides, or the back and forth motion in a piston engine.
- Near-synonym: oscillation
- ... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times.1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- Synonyms
- exchange, interchange, reciprocation
- Antonyms
- ignorance
- Derived terms
- unreciprocation
- Related terms
- reciprocating engine, requital, retaliation
- Hypernyms
- correlation, ensuance
- Hyponyms
- harvest, payback, proceeds, retaliation, retribution, revenge