Residue
['rezɪdjuː] or ['rɛzɪdu]
Definition
(noun.) matter that remains after something has been removed.
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Definition
(n.) That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.
(n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.
(n.) That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.
(n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Remainder, rest, remnant, residuum, BALANCE.[2]. (Law.) Surplus (of a testator's estate), excess, overplus.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REMAINDER]
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Definition
n. that which is left behind after a part is taken away: the remainder: the residuum of an estate after payment of debts and legacies.—adj. Resid′ual remaining as residue.—n. that which remains after a subtraction as the difference between one of a series of observed values and the mean of the series &c.—ns. Resid′ual-air that portion of air which cannot be expelled by the most violent efforts from the lungs; Resid′ual-charge a charge of electricity spontaneously acquired by coated glass; Resid′ual-mag′netism remanent magnetism; Resid′ual-quan′tity a binomial connected with the sign - (minus).—adj. Resid′uary pertaining to the residue: receiving the remainder as residuary estate.—ns. Resid′uary-clause that part of a will which disposes of whatever may be left after satisfying the other provisions of the will; Resid′uary-legatēē′ the legatee to whom is bequeathed the residuum.—v.t. Resid′uate to find the residual of.—ns. Residuā′tion the act of finding the residual; Resid′uent a by-product left after the removal of a principal product.—adj. Resid′uous residual.—n. Resid′ūum that which is left after any process of purification: a residue.
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Examples
- Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- There was still a residue of personal property as well as the land, but the whole was left to one person, and that person was--O possibilities! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The residue on a 200-mesh screen is useless. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The residue and remainder of all my books, manuscripts, and papers, I do give to my grandson William Temple Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And whichever of these qualities we find in the State, the one which is not found will be the residue? Plato. The Republic.
- This is ground and that part of this finely ground clinker that will pass a 200-mesh screen is cement; the residue is still clinker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That remains as a residue of wisdom long after his reasoning and his concrete program have passed into limbo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A good black ink can be made by boiling 3 pounds of logwood with sufficient water to leave a residue of 5 quarts. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This can be demonstrated by evaporating the neutral liquid to dryness and examining the residue of solid matter, which proves to be common salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The waters of the Mediterranean and of our own Great Salt Lake are led into shallow basins, where, after evaporation by the heat of the sun, they leave a residue of salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Socrates proceeds to discover the nature of justice by a method of residues. Plato. The Republic.
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