Definitions for: Reciprocate

[v] alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine reciprocates the propeller"
[v] act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"

Webster (1913) Definition: Re*cip"ro*cate, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Reciprocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Reciprocating.] [L.
reciprocatus, p. p. of reciprocare. See Reciprocal.]
To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in
vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws
and blows reciprocating air. --Dryden.

Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in
which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction
from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels
continuously in one direction in a circular path.

Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward
and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.

Re*cip"ro*cate, v. t.
To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in
return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate
favors. --Cowper.

See Also: act, move, move, return

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