Will someone explain reiprocals? And show an exsample?

Question

Please and Thank you!

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Answer 1

A reciprocal is a linguistic structure that marks a particular kind of relationship between grammatical agents. In a reciprocal construction, each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to each other. For example, the English sentence "John and Mary cut each other's hair", contains a reciprocal structure: John cuts Mary's hair, and Mary cuts John's.

Many languages, such as Turkic or Bantu languages, have special reciprocal morphemes in verbs. English does not, and it generally uses "each other" or some other phrase to indicate reciprocity. Most Indo-European languages do not have special markers for reciprocity on verbs, and reciprocal constructions are expressed through reflexivity or other mechanisms. For example, Russian marks reciprocity in intransitive verbs with the suffix -ся (self), which has also reflexive and passive interpretations.

Answer 2

RECIPROCALS
The reciprocal of a number is something you can multiply the number by to give 1.
Every number has a reciprocal except 0.
The reciprocal of a whole number is the fraction: 1 over the number.

Example—Reciprocal of 7: 1/7

The reciprocal of a fraction can obtained by inverting the fraction:
Examples—Reciprocal of 2/7: 7/2 (or 3½)

Reciprocal of 1/5: 5/1, which we write as 5.

Reciprocal of 2 1/5 : Invert 11/5 to get 5/11.

Answer 3

Mr Nice Guy was correct as far as he went, in that one example of a reciprocal is the reverse of a fraction. However, remember that in actuality ALL numbers are considered fractions, which makes this a reciprocal, too: recip 6 = 1/6 because the integer 6 can be indicated as 6/1.

Answer 4

When talking about fractions, the reciprocal is the fraction "flipped over." For example, the reciprocal of 3/4 is 4/3. If you multiply any fraction by its reciprocal, the answer is 1. 3/4*4/3=(3*4)/(4*3)=12/12=1.

Answer 5

It's the reverse of a fraction... the reciprocal of 3/5 = 5/3.

Answer 6

nice guy is mostly right... a recipricol COULD be stated as the reverse of a fraction, but that's too simple a way to describe it. the reciprocal of any number is the value which that number can be multiplied to equal 1. hence for nice guy's example, of 3/5, the reciprocal IS 5/3, but not because it's the reverse fraction... rather because (3/5)*(5/3) = 1

Answer 7

reciprocal means multiplicative inverse
the reciprocal of x/y is y/x,its multiplicative inverse as (x/y)(y/x)=1
reciprocal of -3/7=-7/3 as (-3/7)(-7/3)=1
reciprocal of -235=(-1/235) as -235(-1/235)=1