reciprocity failure

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photog a failure of the two exposure variables, light intensity and exposure time, to behave in a reciprocal fashion at very high or very low values

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Words nearby reciprocity failure

reciprocate, reciprocated, reciprocating engine, reciprocation, reciprocity, reciprocity failure, recision, recit., recital, recitation, recitative

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How to use reciprocity failure in a sentence

“I think it is important to say it is too soon to judge success or failure,” said Col. Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
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In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.
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Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement deploring the state GOP for its failure to censure Duke.
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In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.
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Failure to bond to their parents was the prominent reason children were being given away.
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That which is called nasality is caused by the failure of the tone to reach freely the anterior cavities of the nares.
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Marriage is like Mayonnaise sauce, either a great success or an absolute and entire failure.
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Joachim, as time showed, never forgave the Emperor for the failure of his cherished plan.
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When trusted with anything like the command of a mixed body of troops he proved an utter failure.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
He consented to the trial, receiving Planner's solemn promise that, in the event of failure, it should be the last.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various