residue
/ˈɹɛzɪdjuː/
That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements; The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process
- plural
- residues
Meanings
- 1
That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements
- 2
The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process
- 3
A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chainrare
- 4
Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testatorrare
- 5
A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a baserare
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A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularitiesrare