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re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅tion

  [ri-sip-ruh-key-shuhn]
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–noun
1. an act or instance of reciprocating.
2. a returning, usually for something given.
3. a mutual giving and receiving.
4. the state of being reciprocal or corresponding.
Origin:
1520–30; < L reciprocātiōn- (s. of reciprocātiō). See reciprocate, -ion
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re·cip·ro·ca·tion   (rĭ-sĭp'rə-kā'shən)   
n.  
  1. An alternating back-and-forth movement.
  2. The act or fact of reciprocating; interchange.
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Reciprocation

Re*cip`ro*ca"tion\, n. [L. reciprocatio: cf. F. reciprocation.]

1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.

2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. --Sir T. Browne.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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reciprocation 
1530, from L. reciprocationem (nom. reciprocatio) "retrogression, alternation, ebb," from reciprocatus, pp. of reciprocare "move back and forth," from reciprocus (see reciprocal).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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