residuum
Americannoun
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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.
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Etymology
Origin of residuum
From Latin, dating back to 1665–75; see origin at residual
Vocabulary lists containing residuum
"Stranger in the Village"
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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
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
The danger of "an undefined residuum of power," he added, is "that it might lead under emergencies to results of an arbitrary character, doing irremedial injustice to private rights."
From Time Magazine Archive
Aniline dyes were first manufactured from the residuum of coal tar in Great Britain.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
These differences in the proportions of volatile substances, of fixed residua, and of density in the coke obtained seem to be in harmony with the primitive organic nature of the carbonized tissues.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various
In children these motor residua may persist as characteristic features of inflection, accent, or manners; automatisms may become morbid in stammering or stuttering, or they may be seen in gait, handwriting, tics or tweaks, etc.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
It is well, however, to place the closed apparatus in water, in order that the residua that have entered the threads of the screw may become detached, and that the apparatus may be opened easily.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
These residua are all black and glossy like common pitch, which differs from them only in having been less acted upon by fire, and thence in being softer.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
The residua of distillation remain almost entirely in the reservoir, O, from whence they are easily removed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various
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