reciprocally Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation
    in return.
    • gave up our seats on the plane and in return received several hundred dollars and seats on the next plane out
    • we get many benefits in return for our taxes
  2. adverb in a mutual or shared manner
    mutually.
    • the agreement was mutually satisfactory
    • the goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive
  3. adverb in an inverse or contrary manner
    inversely.
    • inversely related
    • wavelength and frequency are, of course, related reciprocally"- F.A.Geldard

WordNet

Re*cip"ro*cal*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.
    These two particles to reciprocally affect each other with the same force. Bentley.
  2. (Math.) In the manner of reciprocals.

Webster 1913