Reciprocal vs. Conjugate — What's the Difference?

Done, given, felt, or owed in return

(Grammar) To inflect (a verb) in its forms for distinctions such as number, person, voice, mood, and tense.

Existing, experienced, or done on both sides

To join together.

(Grammar) Expressing mutual action or relationship. Used of some verbs and compound pronouns.

(Biology) To undergo conjugation.

(Mathematics) Of or relating to the reciprocal of a quantity.

(Grammar) To be inflected.

(Physiology) Of or relating to a neuromuscular phenomenon in which the excitation of one group of muscles is accompanied by the inhibition of another.

Joined together, especially in a pair or pairs; coupled.

(Genetics) Of or designating a pair of crosses in which the male or female parent in one cross is of the same genotype or phenotype as the complementary female or male parent in the other cross.

Mathematics & Physics Inversely or oppositely related with respect to one of a group of otherwise identical properties, especially designating either or both of a pair of complex numbers differing only in the sign of the imaginary term.

Something that is reciprocal to something else.

(Linguistics) Derived from a common source, such as the words foul and filth.

(Mathematics) A number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together their product is 1. For example, the reciprocal of 7 is 1/7 ; the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2 .

(Chemistry) Conjugated.

Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.

Mathematics & Physics Any of a set of numbers that satisfy the same irreducible polynomial.

Mutually interchangeable.

(Chemistry) A chemical compound that has been formed by the joining of two or more compounds.

(grammar) Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.

To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.

(math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.

(mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.

Done, given, felt, or owed in return

(rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.

(arithmetic) The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.

To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

(grammar) A construction expressing mutual action.

Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.

Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

A complex conjugate.

Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.

(algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.

Mutually interchangeable.

Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.

Reflexive; - applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.

(mathematics) An explementary angle.

Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.

(grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.

That which is reciprocal to another thing.

(immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together

The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus ¼ is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a + b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

Something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else;

(botany) In single pairs; coupled.

(mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7

(chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.

Hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype

(grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.

Concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return;

(math) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.

Of or relating to or suggestive of complementation;

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

Of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function;

In single pairs; coupled.

Containing two or more compounds or radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.

Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; - said of words.

Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; - frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.

A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.

A complex compound formed from the non-covalent union of two other comounds, behaving as a single compound.

To unite in marriage; to join.

To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumes in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.

To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.

A mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A

Unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds

Add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.;

Undergo conjugation

Joined together especially in a pair or pairs

Of a pinnate leaflet; having only one pair of leaflets

Formed by the union of two compounds;

Of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond