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Definition of Reciprocations
1. reciprocation [n] - See also: reciprocation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reciprocations
Literary usage of Reciprocations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Village Picnic and Other Poems by Thomas Durfee (1872)
"reciprocations. The south wind woos the soft musk-rose And borrows fragrance from
its wooing ; The ripple with the sea-shell sues, And hums more sweetly in ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... the surface arc performed by self-acting mechanism actuated by the reciprocations
of the table itself, the table being driven from the belt pulleys. ..."
3. A Rudimentary Treatise on the Locomotive Engine in All Its Phases: Popularly by George Drysdale Dempsey (1866)
"The piston and slides make two reciprocations or changes of motion during one
revolution of the driving wheels; and as these are 5 feet in diameter, ..."
4. The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive by Thomas Tredgold (1850)
"The piston and slides make two reciprocations or changes of motion during one
revolution of the driving wheels, and as these are five feet in diameter, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The steam or compressed air is distributed through the ports alternately to aie
ends of the cylinder, by the reciprocations of a spool-valve working in л ..."
6. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"And from hence it is that their motions are not only unequal and harsh, but also
that their reciprocations come to be quickly extinguished. ..."