Referential vs Reciprocal - What's the difference?
referential | reciprocal |
Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.
Serving as a reference.
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.
As adjectives the difference between referential and reciprocal
is that referential is of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other while 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
(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.referential
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* coreferential * coreferentially * coreferentiality * nonreferential * referential integrity * referentiality * referentially * self-referentialreciprocal
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.