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recip

recip

9.9
A short informal form for a person who receives something or for a number's reciprocal
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛsɪp/
  • Informal
translation icon : recipiente
  • The abbreviation recip is commonly used in programming forums to refer to a recipient in a data exchange.

Examples

  • In our engineering class, we learned how to calculate the recip of various functions for our project.

  • The software required a negative recip setting to handle the calculations correctly.

  • Negative recip hardware to spell reciprocals.

Synonyms

rcpt
vsrecip
  • Informal
9.9

A person or address that receives mail

is ambiguous and also short for reciprocal or mutual meaning
recept
vsrecip
  • Archaic
9.9

A person or thing that gets something

is a modern informal abbreviation used in technical or casual contexts

Surface Forms

recip singular
recips plural

Etymology

Recip is a short, informal form built on the old Latin root recip- meaning 'receive'. So recip can mean the recipient, the person who receives something, or the reciprocal in math, the number you get when you flip a fraction.