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Equality vs Reciprocation - What's the difference?

equality | reciprocation |

As nouns the difference between equality and reciprocation

is that equality is the fact of being equal while reciprocation is the act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.

equality

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The fact of being equal.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
  • (uncountable) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

    • Synonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,

    Antonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilence

    reciprocation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
  • Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
  • *1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
  • *:... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times .

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