Reciprocal vs Reversible - What's the difference?
reciprocal | reversible |
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.
able to be reversed
(of clothing) able to be worn inside out
(chemistry) (of a chemical reaction ) capable of proceeding in either direction
(physics) (of a phase change ) capable of returning to the original state
(thermodynamics) capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy
As adjectives the difference between reciprocal and reversible
is that reciprocal is of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way while reversible is reversible (capable of being reversed or inverted).As a noun reciprocal
is (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.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.