reciprocal
adjective
given or felt by each toward the other; mutual.
reciprocals
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pluralof reciprocal.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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So, if and are negative reciprocals of one another, they can be multiplied together to yield –1.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 1, 2021
The slopes are reciprocals of each other, but they have the same sign.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We find the slope–intercept form of the equation, and then see if the slopes are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We can graph by observing the graph of the tangent function because these two functions are reciprocals of one another.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
But of these twenty-four cross-ratios groups of four are equal, so that there are really only six different ones, and these six are reciprocals in pairs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
