residuum
Americannoun
plural
residua-
the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
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Chemistry. Also a quantity or body of matter remaining after evaporation, combustion, distillation, etc.
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any residual product.
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Law. the residue of an estate.
noun
Etymology
Origin of residuum
From Latin, dating back to 1665–75; residual
Example Sentences
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The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yet it also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015
Stanzas of final peace Lie in the heart's residuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I have no objection to its being known that my death is voluntary," he wrote, "and I desire cremation as simply and quickly as possible, with no residuum anywhere."
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty."
From Time Magazine Archive
Zinc dissolved in diluted vitriolic acid, yields much inflammable air, and has a residuum, which appears to be plumbago, and the liquor forms crystals, called white copperas.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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