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reciprocate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/riˈsiprəˌkāt/,
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reciprocated, past participle; reciprocated, past tense; reciprocating, present participle; reciprocates, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Respond to (a gesture or action) by making a corresponding one
    • - the favor was reciprocated
    • - perhaps I was expected to reciprocate with some remark of my own
  2. Experience the same (love, liking, or affection) for someone as that person does for oneself
    • - her passion for him was not reciprocated
  3. (of a part of a machine) Move backward and forward in a straight line
    • - a reciprocating blade
  1. act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"
  2. alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine reciprocates the propeller"
  3. (reciprocation) the act of making or doing something in return
  4. (reciprocation) alternating back-and-forth movement
  5. (Reciprocation (geometry)) In geometry, the terms pole and polar are used to describe a point and a line that have a unique reciprocal relationship with respect to a given conic section. If the point lies on the conic section, its polar is the tangent line to the conic section at that point.
  6. To mutually give and take something; to interchange; To give something in response; To move backwards and forwards, like a piston; To counter, retort or retaliate
  7. (reciprocated) In the usual knitting process, the sock is begun at the top and knitted toward the toe. Upon reaching the heel, the machine begins to move more slowly in a semi-circular ("reciprocated") fashion to produce the heel pocket. ...
  8. (Reciprocation) People tend to return a favor. Thus, the pervasiveness of free samples in marketing. ...
  9. (reciprocation) Return in the same manner something that was done or given.
  10. (reciprocation) overall balance in transactions, especially power-transactions; reciprocal balance between entities is not necessarily direct or immediate, and in many cases balance may only be achieved over time at a system-wide level, with energy-transfers occurring between physical, mental, ...
  11. (re·cip·ro·ca·tion) 1: the mechanism by which lateral forces generated by a retentive clasp passing over a height of contour are counterbalanced by a reciprocal clasp passing along a reciprocal guiding plane 2: a mutual exchange 3: an alternating motion—re·cip·ro·ca·tive