Reciprocal

(re-sip'ro-kal.) [From L. rec i proc us, by turns.) (Gram.) A term employed in a sense analogous to that attached to it in ordinary language. A geometrical proposition is the R. (or inverse) of another, when the " data" of the one are the " quæsit a " of the other, and vice vers a. In Algebra, one quantity is the R. of another, when the one is the result of unity divided by the other. [s. 757]