réciproque — meaning in English
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English meaning
- converse verb To talk with someone; to have a conversation.
- reciprocal adj Given or felt equally by both sides; mutual, done in return.
Senses
réciproque is used for these senses in English:
- converse (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
- reciprocal Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
converse — full definition
- verb To talk with someone; to have a conversation.
- adj Reversed in order or relationship; opposite.
- noun The opposite or reverse of something, especially a statement or idea.
reciprocal — full definition
- adj Given or felt equally by both sides; mutual, done in return.
- noun In mathematics, the number you get by dividing 1 by a given number (so the reciprocal of 4 is 1/4).