residuum
Americannoun
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residua
plural
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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
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
"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
It burns with smoke and soot, and leaves a residuum of a coaly substance.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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
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 Thomas Salter
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
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
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 G. Stanley Hall
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