Reciprocal vs Our - What's the difference?
reciprocal | our |
Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
* Shakespeare
Mutually interchangeable.
* I. Watts
(grammar) Reflexive; applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to pronouns that express mutual action.
(math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
contrary or opposite
(arithmetic) Of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
Belonging to us.
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(Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
As an adjective reciprocal
is of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.As a noun reciprocal
is of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.As a determiner our is
belonging to us.reciprocal
English
Adjective
(-)- reciprocal''' love; '''reciprocal duties
- Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.
- These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
Synonyms
* mutual, two-way * contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- 0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.
Synonyms
* (in arithmetic) multiplicative inverseour
English
(wikipedia our)Determiner
- Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
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- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.