reciprocally

Examples

• All

• Children learn about their environment by interacting with it, and reciprocally, through that process, the environment shapes them.

  Academic text (1990)

• To summarize, there is ample reason to suspect that AIDS and certain kinds of street crime are reciprocally related.

  Academic text (1990)

• It can be concluded that the initial status of both skills and the growth rate are interrelated and influence each other reciprocally.

  Academic text (2014)

• Logistics become intrinsically more expensive with complex equipment, and over time and iterations, those costs reciprocally induce organizational responses at the lowest levels.

  Academic text (1996)

• According to this view, identities are bundled without reciprocally determining one another—for instance, an ethnic identity is independent of a national identity (except where the former becomes an idiom for expressing the latter).

  Academic text (1997)

• In mathematics, two variables can change reciprocally, meaning an increase in one results in a decrease in the other.

• When two companies grow reciprocally in their partnership, they create more opportunities for success together.

• The two teams interacted reciprocally, adjusting their strategies based on the other's moves throughout the match.

Synonyms

V

vice versa

vsreciprocally

62 4.4

The opposite is also true

describes two items linked by a mutual opposing relation often in logic

C

conversely

vsreciprocally

• Formal

42 4.6

To introduce a statement that shows the opposite of what was just said

expresses an opposite relation between two items rather than a contrastive remark

I

inversely

vsreciprocally

6 5.8

One thing increases while another decreases

describes two items affecting each other in an opposing logical way

O

oppositely

vsreciprocally

1 5.8

It happens the other way or on the other side

describes a structured inverse relation often used in mathematics or logic

R

reversely

vsreciprocally

1 7.2

In the opposite way

focuses on relations between two items rather than simple directional change

Surface Forms

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Etymology