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
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
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
They ignore the large residuum which drifts without advice and without supervision into the less favourable openings, and in matters of social reform it is the large residuums that count.
From Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Bray, Reginald Arthur
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