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Vinony

reciprocation

noun

  1. act of responding in kind, building a relationship of mutual dependency
  2. act or process of moving back and forth alternately
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English reciprocate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English reciprocation 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.”