reciprocal
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But even when Kiki botches a delivery by dropping a toy mid-air, sending it tumbling into a nearby forest, a bit of reciprocal effort solves the problem.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Manx government said the change would be made in line the island's reciprocal arrangements under the Customs and Excise Agreement, which sees the island maintain the same VAT rates as the United Kingdom.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Through nine agreements on reciprocal trade and a growing number of preliminary framework agreements with key partners, the administration is modernizing international trade rules for an economy driven by data, software, cloud computing and AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
No money or guest points were exchanged, as it was reciprocal.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
So, if and are negative reciprocals of one another, they can be multiplied together to yield –1.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 1, 2021
We find the slope–intercept form of the equation, and then see if the slopes are opposite reciprocals.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
The secant, cotangent, and cosecant are all reciprocals of other functions.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
We can graph by observing the graph of the sine function because these two functions are reciprocals of one another.
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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