Reciprocal vs. Reciprocative — What's the Difference?

Done, given, felt, or owed in return

To give or take mutually; interchange

Existing, experienced, or done on both sides

To show, feel, or give in response or return

(Grammar) Expressing mutual action or relationship. Used of some verbs and compound pronouns.

To give and take something mutually.

(Mathematics) Of or relating to the reciprocal of a quantity.

To make a return for something given or done.

(Physiology) Of or relating to a neuromuscular phenomenon in which the excitation of one group of muscles is accompanied by the inhibition of another.

To move back and forth alternately

(Genetics) Of or designating a pair of crosses in which the male or female parent in one cross is of the same genotype or phenotype as the complementary female or male parent in the other cross.

(archaic) Reciprocated; giving back to one another.

Something that is reciprocal to something else.

Given or done or owed to each other

(Mathematics) A number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together their product is 1. For example, the reciprocal of 7 is 1/7 ; the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2 .

Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.

Mutually interchangeable.

(grammar) Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.

(math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.

Done, given, felt, or owed in return

(arithmetic) The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.

(grammar) A construction expressing mutual action.

Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.

Mutually interchangeable.

Reflexive; - applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.

Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.

That which is reciprocal to another thing.

The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus ¼ is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a + b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.

Something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else;

(mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7

Hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype

Concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return;

Of or relating to or suggestive of complementation;

Of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function;