Residue

Quick meaning: Residue is a noun meaning That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.

Meaning

That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.

More Meanings

1. (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
2. (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
3. (law) 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 testator.
4. (modular arithmetic) 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 base.
5. (complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

Example Sentences

By taking residues, we can represent this integral in terms of a Jackson integral.

Word Forms

• residues

Synonyms for residue

Depending on context, synonyms include lave, remnant, rest, residuum, remainder, residual.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include residuum, remainder, residual, rest, remnant, leftover.

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