Usually means: Moving back and forth repeatedly.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word reciprocating:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. reciprocating: Merriam-Webster
  2. reciprocating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reciprocating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. reciprocating: Vocabulary.com
  5. Reciprocating, reciprocating: Wordnik
  6. reciprocating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. reciprocating: Wiktionary
  8. Reciprocating, reciprocating: Dictionary.com
  9. reciprocating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Reciprocating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. reciprocating: Rhymezone
  12. Reciprocating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. reciprocating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. reciprocating: FreeDictionary.org
  15. reciprocating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. reciprocating: Legal dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See reciprocate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (reciprocating)

adjective:  That moves back and forth or up and down.
adjective:  (of engine types) That has one or more pistons that move back and forth or up and down.
adjective:  (of other machines) Whose mechanism relies on a back and forth or up and down motion.
adjective:  (of persons or their actions) Responding in kind.

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