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reciprocal 1. Maths of or relating to a number or quantity divided into one 2. Navigation denoting a course or bearing that is 180? from the previous or assumed one 3. Maths a number or quantity that when multiplied by a given number or quantity gives a product of one reciprocal [ri′sip·rə·kəl] (mathematics) The reciprocal of a numberAis the number 1/A. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He said reciprocals allow profits to be passed down to members in the form of subscriber accounts, such as patronage dividends. But their reciprocals can be viewed as the expected number of events that will contain one such undesirable event or the expected length of time that will contain one unit time of such a desirable state being unavailable. The individual means were weighted by using reciprocals of posterior variances, so ratios with more variance were given less weight in the summary ratios. |
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