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Definition of Reciprocatory
1. Adjective. Given or done or owed to each other.
Similar to: Mutual, Reciprocal
Derivative terms: Reciprocate, Reciprocate
2. Adjective. Moving alternately backward and forward.
Similar to: Mutual, Reciprocal
Derivative terms: Reciprocate, Reciprocate, Reciprocate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reciprocatory
Literary usage of Reciprocatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"12. motion, and then passes through between the curved arm, cc, of the wheel,
and escapes at the centre, 475 The reciprocatory hydraulic engine, ..."
2. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"The reciprocatory hydraulic engine works exactly on the same principle as the
... Both the turbine and the reciprocatory engine have been made use of as ..."
3. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"The reciprocatory hydraulic engine works exactly on the same principle as the
... Both the turbine and the reciprocatory engine have been made use of as ..."
4. The Mechanics' Magazine (1853)
"The use in moulding or shaping metals of a reciprocatory traversing rammer,
rotatory or non-rotatory, as described. 5. The system or mode of constructing ..."
5. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1853)
"The use iu moulding or shaping metale of a reciprocatory traversing rammer, ...
The mode of effecting the continuous reciprocatory traverse action of the ..."
6. Elementary Treatise on Steam and Locomotion: Based on the Principle of by John Sewell (1852)
"The amount of intellectual toil concentrated in a modern reciprocatory engine
will therefore be obvious, as also that the principal inventions and ..."
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