reciprocation

== English == === Etymology === From reciprocate + -ion. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -eɪʃən === Noun === reciprocation (countable and uncountable, plural reciprocations) The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning. Synonym: reciprocity the reciprocation of kindness 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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === requital retaliation === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “reciprocation”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], 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.