residuum
Americannoun
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residua
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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
And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina.
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
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
After agitation in water it loses this property, and the residuum is merely inflammable air, with no great diminution of its bulk.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
Again he says, "The more things we try to explain, the better we realize that we live in a world of unexplained residua."
From Studies in the Life of the Christian by Henry T. (Henry Thorne) Sell
The former, however, is now seldom to be met with, the varieties employed on the palette being the residua of various resinous and bituminous matters, distilled for the sake of their essential oils.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
It is the residua of these experiences that have persisted and become associated into complexes which are retained as traits of our personality.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
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
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
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