residue
nounUS /ˈɹɛzɪduː/ · /ˈɹɛzɪdjuː/
Etymology From Middle English residue, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, neuter of residuus (“remaining”), from resideō (“to remain behind”). Doublet of residuum.
That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
Law Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a base.
Modular arithmetic
Complex analysis, Mathematics, Sciences A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
- By taking residues, we can represent this integral in terms of a Jackson integral.2001, Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, page 72:
- Derived terms
- agroresidue, day residue, day's residue, diresidue, interresidue, intraresidue, microresidue, multiresidue, nonresidue, phosphoresidue, quadratic residue, residual, residuary, residue class, residue field, residueless, rest and residue
- Related terms
- residuum