reciprocal
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Governing bodies usually have reciprocal arrangements for the home board to pick up the logistical expenses of the visiting team, including things like travel and accommodation.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
A senior US State Department official told reporters: "We've taken reciprocal action with respect to a Brazilian diplomat here to make the point that it can't always be one-sided"
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Plus, U.S. and China agree to reciprocal tariff reduction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It was a rare reciprocal relationship in an interaction otherwise distorted by fame—we loved her because she was Gloria Steinem, and she loved us because we were bright-eyed young women.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
While continuing reciprocal exchanges and without marketing or money, chiefdoms developed an additional new system termed a redistributive economy.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The slopes are negative reciprocals of each other, so the lines are perpendicular.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We can use the fact that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We find the slope–intercept form of the equation, and then see if the slopes are negative reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
The next set of fundamental identities is the set of reciprocal identities, which, as their name implies, relate trigonometric functions that are reciprocals of each other.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
If the tangent wheel is turned through a right angle at starting, the machine will integrate reciprocals, or it can be made to integrate functions by an inverse process.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various
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