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Take reciprocals and change the signs of the exponents.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

We can use the fact that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

Since they are not negative reciprocals, the lines are not perpendicular.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

The next set of fundamental identities is the set of reciprocal identities, which, as their name implies, relate trigonometric functions that are reciprocals of each other.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

Barlow's Tables of squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, reciprocals of all numbers up to 10,000.

From A System of Easy Lettering by Cromwell, John Howard