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Reciprocatory

//ɹɪˈsɪp.ɹə.kəˌtɔ.ɹi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of reciprocating: acting or applying reciprocally between two parties. not-comparable

    "[…] in the year 1725, the emperor Charles having acknowledged Philip as king of Spain and of the Indies, his catholic majesty guaranteed the Ostend East India Company, among other reciprocatory concessions."

  2. 2
    Synonym of reciprocating: moving backwards and forwards. not-comparable

    "1781, patent dated 25 October, cited in Charles Frederick Partington, A Course of Lectures on the Steam Engine, London: J. Gifford, 1826, p. 24, footnote, For certain new methods of applying the vibrating or reciprocatory motion of steam or fire-engines to produce a continued rotative or circular motion round an axis or centre, and thereby to give motion to the wheels of mills, or other machines."

Adjective
  1. 1
    moving alternately backward and forward wordnet
  2. 2
    given or done or owed to each other wordnet

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