Found 3 items, similar to reciprocating.
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Definition: reciprocate
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: reciprocating
reciprocating
adj : moving alternately backward and forward [syn:
reciprocatory]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Reciprocating
Reciprocate
\Re*cip"ro*cate\ (r[-e]*s[i^]p"r[-o]*k[=a]t), v. i.
[imp. & p. p.
Reciprocated
(r[-e]*s[i^]p"r[-o]*k[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Reciprocating.] [L. reciprocatus, p. p. of reciprocare. See
Reciprocal.]
To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in
vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
[1913 Webster]
One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies,
And draws and blows reciprocating air. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in
which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction
from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels
continuously in one direction in a circular path.
Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward
and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.
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